The sections on ring management and token selection on http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations will help.
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Mike Subelsky <m...@subelsky.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > One of my nodes has a much higher load (10x) than the other two nodes. > I don't think it's because a few keys have a lot more columns than > others -- the keys are well distributed and I'm using the random > partitioner. > > Could someone point me in the direction of what should I be checking > for in a situation like this? I don't totally understand what the > range value represents below but I feel like that be must a clue. I > know I can run loadbalance here but I want to address the underlying > problem that caused the imbalance in the first place. > > Address Status Load Range > Ring > > 152603206199102353627433717890579536149 > 10.198.7.47 Up 95.8 MB > 2178153229901630557148545713417876599 |<--| > 10.210.239.191Up 1.09 GB > 129781355096377133235068186455049349192 | | > 10.193.210.192Up 125.44 MB > 152603206199102353627433717890579536149 |-->| > > thanks! > > -Mike > > -- > Mike Subelsky > oib.com // ignitebaltimore.com // subelsky.com > @subelsky > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com