Often, I see the following behavior: (1) Cassandra works, all nodes are up etc
(2) a 'move' operation is being run on one of the nodes (3) following this 'move' operation, even after a couple of hours / days where it is obvious the operation has ended, the node which had 'moved' remains with a status of ? perhaps it's a bug? ___________________________________________________________________________________ shalom@host:/opt/cassandra/apache-cassandra-0.7.4$ bin/nodetool -host 192.168.0.5 ring Address Status State Load Owns Token 127605887595351923798765477786913079296 192.168.0.253 Up Normal 88.66 MB 25.00% 0 192.168.0.4 Up Normal 558.2 MB 50.00% 85070591730234615865843651857942052863 192.168.0.5 Up Normal 71.03 MB 16.67% 113427455640312821154458202477256070485 192.168.0.6 Up Normal 44.71 MB 8.33% 127605887595351923798765477786913079296 shalom@host:/opt/cassandra/apache-cassandra-0.7.4$ bin/nodetool -host 192.168.0.4 move 92535295865117307932921825928971026432 shalom@host:/opt/cassandra/apache-cassandra-0.7.4$ bin/nodetool -host 192.168.0.5 ring Address Status State Load Owns Token 127605887595351923798765477786913079296 192.168.0.253 Up Normal 171.17 MB 25.00% 0 192.168.0.4 ? Normal 212.11 MB 54.39% 92535295865117307932921825928971026432 192.168.0.5 Up Normal 263.91 MB 12.28% 113427455640312821154458202477256070485 192.168.0.6 Up Normal 26.21 MB 8.33% 127605887595351923798765477786913079296