On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Julie <julie.su...@nextcentury.com> wrote: > At this point, I logged in. The data distribution on this node was 122GB. I > started performing a manual nodetool cleanup.
Check the size of the Hinted Handoff CF? If your nodes are flapping under sustained write, they could be storing a non-trivial number of hinted handoff rows? Probably not 5x usage though.. http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations " The reason why you run nodetool cleanup on all live nodes [after replacing a node] is to remove old Hinted Handoff writes stored for the dead node. " You could relatively quickly determine whether Hinted Handoff is implicated by running your test with the feature turned off. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-894 =Rob
