Have you done step 6 of the 'To add nodes to a Cassandra cluster' of http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.8/operations/clustering#adding-capacity, aka, run nodetool cleanup on the previously existing nodes ?
-- Sylvain On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 11:58 AM, amulya rattan <talk2amu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > I had a 3 nodes ring, added a 4th one, and moved others to appropriate > tokens..doing nodetool ring shows: > 127.0.0.1 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 348.82 MB > 25.00% 0 > 127.0.0.2 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 349.81 MB > 25.00% 42535295865117307932921825928971026432 > 127.0.0.3 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 437.04 MB > 25.00% 85070591730234615865843651857942052864 > 127.0.0.4 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 261.74 MB > 25.00% 127605887595351923798765477786913079296 > Although it shows 25% on all nodes, the data distribution seems totally > unbalanced, how did that happen? > Also if I happen to have a thousand node cluster, and add another 100 nodes, > is it ok to start moving all nodes to their respective new tokens > simultaneously or one-by-one? > Any response is appreciated. > ~Amulya
