Just throwing this out there as it could be a concern. I had a cluster of 3 nodes running. Over the weekend I updated to trunc (Aug 9th @ 2pm). Today, I came to run my daily tests and my client kept giving me TSocket timeouts. Checking the error log of Cassandra servers, all 3 nodes had this and they all became unresponsive! Not sure how to reproduce this but a restart of all 3 nodes fixed the issue:
ERROR [COMMIT-LOG-WRITER] 2010-08-09 11:30:27,722 CassandraDaemon.java (line 82) Uncaught exception in thread Thread[COMMIT-LOG-WRITER,5,main] java.lang.AssertionError at org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogHeader$CommitLogHeaderSerializer.serialize(CommitLogHeader.java:157) at org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogHeader.writeCommitLogHeader(CommitLogHeader.java:124) at org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogSegment.writeHeader(CommitLogSegment.java:70) at org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogSegment.write(CommitLogSegment.java:103) at org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLog$LogRecordAdder.run(CommitLog.java:521) at org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.PeriodicCommitLogExecutorService$1.runMayThrow(PeriodicCommitLogExecutorService.java:52) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.WrappedRunnable.run(WrappedRunnable.java:30) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636) -Arya