Have you run repair on the nodes ? Maybe some data was lost and not repaired yet ?
Philippe 2011/8/23 Chris Marino <ch...@vcider.com> > Hi, we're running some performance tests against some clusters and I'm > curious about some of the numbers I see. > > I'm running the stress test against two identically configured clusters, > but after I run at stress test, I get different Load values across the > clusters? > > The difference between the two clusters is that one uses standard EC2 > interfaces, but the other runs on a virtual network. Are these differences > indicating something that I should be aware of?? > > Here is a sample of the kinds of results I'm seeing. > > Address DC Rack Status State Load Owns > Token > > 12760588759xxx > 10.0.0.17 DC1 RAC1 Up Normal 94 MB > 25.00% 0 > 10.0.0.18 DC1 RAC1 Up Normal 104.52 MB > 25.00% 42535295865xxx > 10.0.0.19 DC1 RAC1 Up Normal 78.58 MB > 25.00% 85070591730xxx > 10.0.0.20 DC1 RAC1 Up Normal 78.58 MB > 25.00% 12760588759xxx > > Address DC Rack Status State Load Owns > Token > > 12760588759xxx > 10.120.35.52 DC1 RAC1 Up Normal 103.74 MB > 25.00% 0 > 10.120.6.124 DC1 RAC1 Up Normal 118.99 MB > 25.00% 42535295865xxx > 10.127.90.142 DC1 RAC1 Up Normal 104.26 MB > 25.00% 85070591730xxx > 10.94.69.237 DC1 RAC1 Up Normal 75.74 MB > 25.00% 12760588759xxx > > The first cluster with the vNet (10.0.0.0/28 addresses) consistently show > smaller Load values. The total Load of 355MB vs. 402MB with native EC2 > interfaces?? Is a total Load value even meaningful?? The stress test is the > very first thing that's run against the clusters. > > [I'm also a little puzzled that these numbers are not uniform within the > clusters, but I suspect that's because the stress test is using a key > distribution that is Gaussian. I'm not 100% sure of this either since I've > seen conflicting documentation. Haven't tried 'random' keys, but I presume > that would change them to be uniform] > > Except for these curious Load numbers, things seem to be running just fine. > Getting good fast results. Over 10 iterations I'm getting more than 10-12K > inserts per sec. (default values for the stress test). > > Should I expect the Load to be the same across different clusters?? What > might explain the differences I'm seeing??? > > Thanks in advance. > CM >