Hi,

I will wait until this is fixed beforeI upgrade, just to be sure.

Shall I open a new ticket for this issue?

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:57 AM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote:
> This looks like an artifact of the way ownership is calculated for the OOP.
> See https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-0.8.4/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/dht/OrderPreservingPartitioner.java#L177 it
> was changed in this ticket
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2800
> The change applied in CASSANDRA-2800 was not applied to the
> AbstractByteOrderPartitioner. Looks like it should have been. I'll chase
> that up.
>
> When each node calculates the ownership for the token ranges (for OOP and
> BOP) it's based on the number of keys the node has in that range. As there
> is no way for the OOP to understand the range of values the keys may take.
> If you look at the 192 node it's showing ownership most with 192, 191 and
> 190 - so i'm assuming RF3 and 192 also has data from the ranges owned by 191
> and 190.
> IMHO you can ignore this.
> You can use load the the number of keys estimate from cfstats to get an idea
> of whats happening.
> Hope that helps.
> -----------------
> Aaron Morton
> Freelance Cassandra Developer
> @aaronmorton
> http://www.thelastpickle.com
> On 19/08/2011, at 9:42 PM, Thibaut Britz wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> we were using apache-cassandra-2011-06-28_08-04-46.jar so far in
> production and wanted to upgrade to 0.8.4.
>
> Our cluster was well balanced and we only saved keys with a lower case
> md5 prefix. (Orderpreserving partitioner).
> Each node owned 20% of the tokens, which was also displayed on each
> node in nodetool -h localhost ring.
>
> After upgrading, our well balanced cluster shows completely wrong
> percentage on who owns which keys:
>
> *.*.*.190:
> Address         DC          Rack        Status State   Load
> Owns    Token
>
>        ffffffffffffffff
> *.*.*.190   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  87.95 GB
> 34.57%  2a
> *.*.*.191   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  84.3 GB
> 0.02%   55
> *.*.*.192   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  79.46 GB
> 0.02%   80
> *.*.*.194   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  68.16 GB
> 0.02%   aa
> *.*.*.196   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  79.9 GB
> 65.36%  ffffffffffffffff
>
> *.*.*.191:
> Address         DC          Rack        Status State   Load
> Owns    Token
>
>        ffffffffffffffff
> *.*.*.190   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  87.95 GB
> 36.46%  2a
> *.*.*.191   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  84.3 GB
> 26.02%  55
> *.*.*.192   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  79.46 GB
> 0.02%   80
> *.*.*.194   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  68.16 GB
> 0.02%   aa
> *.*.*.196   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  79.9 GB
> 37.48%  ffffffffffffffff
>
> *.*.*.192:
> Address         DC          Rack        Status State   Load
> Owns    Token
>
>        ffffffffffffffff
> *.*.*.190   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  87.95 GB
> 38.16%  2a
> *.*.*.191   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  84.3 GB
> 27.61%  55
> *.*.*.192   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  79.46 GB
> 34.17%  80
> *.*.*.194   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  68.16 GB
> 0.02%   aa
> *.*.*.196   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  79.9 GB
> 0.02%   ffffffffffffffff
>
> *.*.*.194:
> Address         DC          Rack        Status State   Load
> Owns    Token
>
>        ffffffffffffffff
> *.*.*.190   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  87.95 GB
> 0.03%   2a
> *.*.*.191   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  84.3 GB
> 31.43%  55
> *.*.*.192   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  79.46 GB
> 39.69%  80
> *.*.*.194   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  68.16 GB
> 28.82%  aa
> *.*.*.196   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  79.9 GB
> 0.03%   ffffffffffffffff
>
> *.*.*.196:
> Address         DC          Rack        Status State   Load
> Owns    Token
>
>        ffffffffffffffff
> *.*.*.190   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  87.95 GB
> 0.02%   2a
> *.*.*.191   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  84.3 GB
> 0.02%   55
> *.*.*.192   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  79.46 GB
> 0.02%   80
> *.*.*.194   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  68.16 GB
> 27.52%  aa
> *.*.*.196   datacenter1 rack1       Up     Normal  79.9 GB
> 72.42%  ffffffffffffffff
>
>
> Interestingly, each server shows something completely different.
>
> Removing the locationInfo files didn't help.
> -Dcassandra.load_ring_state=false didn't help as well.
>
> Our cassandra.yaml is at http://pastebin.com/pCVCt3RM
>
> Any idea on what might cause this? Is it save to suspect that
> operating under this distribution will cause severe data loss? Or can
> I safely ignore this?
>
> Thanks,
> Thibaut
>
>

Reply via email to