I've been seeing this EOF in my system.log file occasionally as well. Doesn't seem to be causing harm:
ERROR [Thread-22] 2011-04-05 20:37:22,562 AbstractCassandraDaemon.java (line 112) Fatal exception in thread Thread[Thread-22,5,main] java.io.IOError: java.io.EOFException at org.apache.cassandra.net.IncomingTcpConnection.run(IncomingTcpConnection.java:73) Caused by: java.io.EOFException at java.io.DataInputStream.readInt(DataInputStream.java:375) at org.apache.cassandra.net.IncomingTcpConnection.run(IncomingTcpConnection.java:61) Firewall rules prevent anything but cassandra instances accessing cassandra instances on port 7000 ... This is with 0.7.4 -sd On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oops, I saw "EOFException" and jumped to "scrub." > > But your EOF is coming from TCP. Something (almost certainly a > non-cassandra process) is connecting to the internal Cassandra > communication port (the one that defaults to 7000) and disconnecting. > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Kazuo YAGI <ky...@zynga.co.jp> wrote: >>>> Solution: upgrade to 0.7.4, run scrub >> >> Although I upgraded all my cassandra nodes from 0.7.0 to 0.7.4 and >> ran nodetool scrub to all keyspaces, this EOFException error messages >> didn't go away. Do you have any ideas how to deal with it next? >> >> Besides, it would be really useful if I could know whether or not >> these error messages are ignorable, because our application has been >> working well before and after upgrading. >> >> Thanks, >> Kazuo