> I'm assuming the two nodes are the ones receiving the HH after they were > down.
Adjacent, so yes. > > Are there a lot of hints collected while they are down ? you can check the > HintedHandOffManager MBean in JConsole There wasn't any downtime - that's something else that's weird. > > What does the TPStats look like on the nodes under pressure ? And how many > nodes are delivering hints to the nodes when they restart? TPStats do show activity on the HH. I'll have some examples latter if the nodes decide to do this again. > > Finally hinted_handoff_throttle_delay_in_ms in conf/cassandra.yaml will let > you slow down the delivery rate if HH is indeed the problem. That's useful info. Thanks. Best, Gabriel
