Hi Benjamin, I reverted back to the old RF of 2, by restarting all nodes with RF 2, and then running cleanup. It came down to 2. This time, i now changed the RF to 3 for all machines and restarted all the nodes.
I started running repair one by one on all machines, tracking through jconsole that compaction (readonly) was happenning, and moved over to the next node only when there was no compaction going on, and nothing in the AES stage. The process is finished on all machines, and took a long time i have to say. However my ring shows almost 8 times load. Here it is. Original data size was about 100 gigs, with RF 2 it was about 200 gigs. But here its almost 800 gigs. What could i be doing wrong? Address Status Load Range Ring 128045052799293308972222897669231312075 ip1 Up 100.09 GB 418948754358022090024968091731975038 |<--| ip2 Up 90.83 GB 11057191649494821574112431245768166381 | ^ ip3 Up 105.9 GB 21705674247570520134925875025273670789 v | ip4 Up 122.7 GB 42980788726886850121690234508345696103 | ^ ip5 Up 106.24 GB 85510669386552904928042350150568641153 v | ip6 Up 194.27 GB 106767287274351479790232508363491106683 | ^ ip7 Up 87.3 GB 128045052799293308972222897669231312075 |-->| /G On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Gurpreet Singh <gurpreet.si...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks Benjamin. I realised that, i have reverted using cleanup, got it > back to old state and testing the scenario exactly the way you put it. > > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Benjamin Black <b...@b3k.us> wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Gurpreet Singh >> <gurpreet.si...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > 1. I was looking to increase the RF to 3. This process entails changing >> the >> > config and calling repair on the keyspace one at a time, right? >> > So, I started with one node at a time, changed the config file on the >> first >> > node for the keyspace, restarted the node. And then called a nodetool >> repair >> > on the node. >> >> You need to change the RF on _all_ nodes in the cluster _before_ >> running repair on _any_ of them. If nodes disagree on which nodes >> should have replicas for keys, repair will not work correctly. >> Different RF for the same keyspace creates that disagreement. >> >> >> b >> > >