I would assume it's because it thinks some node is down and is creating hints for it.
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Jeremy Hanna <jeremy.hanna1...@gmail.com> wrote: > We're trying to bootstrap some new nodes and it appears when adding a new > node that there is a lot of logging on hints being flushed and compacted. > It's been taking about 75 minutes thus far to bootstrap for only about 10 GB > of data. It's ballooned up to over 40 GB on the new node. I do 'ls -l > $CASSANDRA/data/system | grep -i hint | wc -l' and it's over 2000. > > Any idea why this would be happening and why it's going crazy flushing these > files? It's also trying to keep up and compacting them as well. > > Completed flushing $CASSANDRA/data/system/HintsColumnFamily-f-1740-Data.db > > Version 0.7.8 (upgrading from 0.7.6 right now) > Number of nodes: 20 -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com