It seems to be about 15 seconds after killing a node before the other nodes report it being down.
We are running a 9 node cluster with RF=3, all reads and writes at quorum. I was making the same assumption you are, that an operation would complete fine at quorum with only one node down since the other two nodes would be able to respond. Justin On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Aaron Morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>wrote: > Ah, that was not exactly what you were after. I do not know how long it > takes gossip / failure detector to detect a down node. > > In your case what is the CF you're using for reads and what is your RF? The > hope would be that taking one node down at a time would leave enough server > running to serve the request. AFAIK the coordinator will make a read request > to the first node responsible for the row, and only ask for a digest from > the others. So there may be a case where it has to timeout reading from the > first node before asking for the full data from the others. > > A hack solution may be to reduce the rpc_timeout_in_ms > > May need some adult supervision to answer this one. > > Aaron > > On 30 Sep, 2010,at 10:45 AM, Aaron Morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote: > > Try nodetool drain > > Flushes all memtables for a node and causes the node to stop accepting > write operations. Read operations will continue to work. This is typically > used before upgrading a node to a new version of Cassandra. > http://www.riptano.com/docs/0.6.5/utils/nodetool > > <http://www.riptano.com/docs/0.6.5/utils/nodetool>Aaron > > > On 30 Sep, 2010,at 10:15 AM, Justin Sanders <jus...@justinjas.com> wrote: > > I looked through the documentation but couldn't find anything. I was > wondering if there is a way to manually mark a node "down" in the cluster > instead of killing the cassandra process and letting the other nodes figure > out the node is no longer up. > > The reason I ask is because we are having an issue when we perform rolling > restarts on the cluster. Basically read requests that come in on other > nodes will block while they are waiting on the node that was just killed to > be marked down. Before they realize the node is offline they will throw a > TimedOutException. > > If I could mark the node being down ahead of time this timeout period could > be avoided. Any help is appreciated. > > Justin > >
