Are you monitoring the progress http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Streaming ?
or with nodetool netstats Aaron On 22 Mar 2011, at 16:33, A J wrote: > I am trying to estimate the time it will take to rebuild a node. After > loading reasonable data, I brought down a node and manually removed > all its datafiles for a given keyspace (Keyspace1) > I then restarted the node and got i back in the ring. At this point, I > wish to run nodetool repair (bin/nodetool -h 127.0.0.1 repair > Keyspace1) and estimate the time the time to rebuild from the time it > takes to repair. > > For some reason, the repair command runs forever. I just have 3G of > data per node but still the repair is running for more than an hour ! > Can someone tell if it is normal or I am doing something wrong. > > Thanks.