Ahh, I think this is the key section I missed: "you can still have imbalances if your Tokens do not divide up the range evenly, so you should specify InitialToken to your first nodes as i * (2**127 / N) for i = 1 .. N."
I'm going to reset my cluster with initial tokens like that. Thanks! -Mike On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- Mike Subelsky oib.com // ignitebaltimore.com // subelsky.com @subelsky
