1676 says "Avoid dropping messages off the client request path." Bootstrap messages are "off the client requst path." So, if some of the nodes involved were loaded enough that they were dropping messages older than RPC_TIMEOUT to cope, it could lose part of the bootstrap communication permanently.
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Ran Tavory <ran...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, thanks, so I see we had the same problem (I too had multiple keyspace, > not that I know why it matters to the problem at hand) and I see that by > upgrading to 0.6.7 you solved your problem (I didn't try it, had a different > workaround) but frankly, I don't understand > how https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1676 would relate the > the "stuck bootstrap" problem (I'm not saying that it isn't, I'd just like > to understand why...) -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com