On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Julie <julie.su...@nextcentury.com> wrote: > Coinciding with my write timeouts, all 10 of my cassandra servers are getting > the following exception written to system.log:
"Value too large for defined data type" looks like a bug found in older JREs. Upgrade to u19 or later. > Another thing that is odd is that even when the server nodes are quiescent > because compacting is complete, I am still seeing cpu usage stay at > about 40% . Even after several hours, no reading or writing to the database > and all compactions complete, the cpu usage is staying around 40%. Possibly this is Hinted Handoff scanning going on. You can rm data/system/Hint* (while the node is shut down) if you want to take a shot in the dark. Otherwise you'll want to follow http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/javasdk/tools/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.java.doc.igaa/_1vg0001475cb4a-1190e2e0f74-8000_1007.html to figure out which thread is actually consuming the CPU. -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com