You need to specify your initial tokens. LoadBalance really doesn't do a good job of balancing the load. Take a look at "Load Balancing" in http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations There is a little python script in there to help you pick tokens for a given cluster size.
If you don't want to blow away the data you have, then there is more work involved but basically you want to pick 6 evenly spaced tokens for your ring and then one-by-one move your nodes to those positions. This is resource intensive and takes a while so it may be easier to just bring up a new cluster with the initial tokens correctly specified. On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Frank LoVecchio <fr...@isidorey.com>wrote: > I have 6 nodes, with a RF of 3. I didn't set auto bootstrap to true in the > conf file, is this why I'm getting such non-balanced data storage? I tried > running nodetool loadbalance on the nodes, one by one, but that didn't > really seem to help. > > Address Status State Load Token > > xxx > node1 Up Normal 3.64 GB xxx > node2 Up Normal 2.81 GB xxx > node3 Up Normal 6.93 GB xxx > node4 Up Normal 8.1 GB xxx > node5 Up Normal 2.78 GB xxx > node6 Up Normal 928.31 MB xxx > -- Riptano Software and Support for Apache Cassandra http://www.riptano.com/ mden...@riptano.com m: 512.587.0900 f: 866.583.2068
