The %age (owns) is just the arc length in terms of %age of tokens a node owns out of the total token space. It doesn't reflect the actual data.
The size (load) is the real current load. -Naren On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Sasha Dolgy <sdo...@gmail.com> wrote: > ah, you know ... i have been reading it wrong. the output shows a > nice fancy column called "Owns" but i've only ever seen the percentage > ... the amount of data or "load" is even ... doh. thanks for the > reply. cheers > -sd > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Narendra Sharma > <narendra.sha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On the same page there is a section on Load Balance that talks about > python > > script to compute tokens. I believe your question is more about assigning > > new tokens and not compute tokens. > > > > 1. "nodetool loadbalance" will result in recomputation of tokens. It will > > pick tokens based on the load and not the once assigned by you. > > 2. You can either use decommission and bootstrap with new tokens OR Use > > "nodetool move" > > > > Thanks, > > Naren > > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Sasha Dolgy <sdo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Sorry for being a bit daft ... Wanted a bit of validation or rejection > ... > >> > >> If I have a 6 node cluster, replication factor 2 (don't think this is > >> applicable to the token decision) is the following sufficient and > >> correct for determining the tokens: > >> > >> #!/bin/bash > >> for nodes in {0..5}; > >> do > >> echo "$nodes*(2^127/5)" | bc; > >> done > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Gives me a result of: > >> > >> 0 > >> 34028236692093846346337460743176821145 > >> 68056473384187692692674921486353642290 > >> 102084710076281539039012382229530463435 > >> 136112946768375385385349842972707284580 > >> 170141183460469231731687303715884105725 > >> > >> My ring right now is: > >> > >> > >> 10.0.0.2 Up Normal 225 KB 40.78% > >> 24053088190195663439419935163232881936 > >> 10.0.0.3 Up Normal 201.21 KB 19.17% > >> 56667357399723182105247119364967854254 > >> 10.0.0.4 Up Normal 213.15 KB 17.61% > >> 86624712919272143003828971968762407027 > >> 10.0.0.5 Up Normal 214.54 KB 11.22% > >> 105714724128406151241468359303513100912 > >> 10.0.0.6 Up Normal 206.39 KB 5.61% > >> 115259729732973155360288052970888447854 > >> 10.0.0.7 Up Normal 247.68 KB 5.61% > >> 124804735337540159479107746638263794797 > >> > >> If my new tokens are correct: > >> > >> 1. cassandra.yaml is updated on each node with new token > >> 2. node is restarted and a nodetool repair is run, or is a nodetool > >> loadbalance run > >> > >> Thanks in advance ... been staring at > >> http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations#Token_selection for too > >> long > >> > >> -- > >> Sasha Dolgy > >> sasha.do...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > -- > Sasha Dolgy > sasha.do...@gmail.com >