Doesn't really look abnormal to me for a heavy write load situation which is what "receiving hints" is.
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Gabriel Tataranu <gabr...@wajam.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm experiencing some issues with 2 nodes (out of more than 10). Right > after startup (Listening for thrift clients...) the nodes will create > objects at high rate using all available CPU cores: > > INFO 18:13:15,350 GC for PS Scavenge: 292 ms, 494902976 reclaimed > leaving 2024909864 used; max is 6658457600 > INFO 18:13:20,393 GC for PS Scavenge: 252 ms, 478691280 reclaimed > leaving 2184252600 used; max is 6658457600 > .... > INFO 18:15:23,909 GC for PS Scavenge: 283 ms, 452943472 reclaimed > leaving 5523891120 used; max is 6658457600 > INFO 18:15:24,912 GC for PS Scavenge: 273 ms, 466157568 reclaimed > leaving 5594606128 used; max is 6658457600 > > This will eventually trigger old-gen GC and then the process repeats > until hinted handoff finishes. > > The build version was updated from 0.7.2 to 0.7.5 but the behavior was > exactly the same. > > Thank you. > > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com