If you are using NetworkTopologyStrategy you are probably hitting https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1804 which is fixed in rc2.
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Reverend Chip <rev.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm running a big test -- ten nodes with 3T disk each. I'm using > 0.7.0rc1. After some tuning help (thanks Tyler) lots of this is working > as it should. However a serious event occurred as well -- the server > froze up -- and though mutations were dropped, no error was reported to > the client. Here's what the log said on host X.19: > > WARN [ScheduledTasks:1] 2010-12-06 14:04:11,125 MessagingService.java > (line 527) Dropped 76 MUTATION messages in the last 5000ms > > Meanwhile, on the OTHER nodes, gossip decided the node was not available > for a while: > > INFO [ScheduledTasks:1] 2010-12-06 14:04:02,396 Gossiper.java (line > 195) InetAddress /X.19 is now dead. > INFO [GossipStage:1] 2010-12-06 14:04:06,127 Gossiper.java (line 569) > InetAddress /X.19 is now UP > > And despite the fact that I was writing with consistency=ALL, none of my > clients reported any errors on their mutations. > > Tyler has this information but I would like to know if anyone has seen > this before, and/or has a diagnosis. > > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com