The more physical data that lives on a node the more intensive operations are. Especially read based ops.
Even if your ring is balanced something like a failed repair could create a data imbalance. >From some offline talks with you I know you node count is on smaller end and repairs have been problematic from disk space. Have you considered leveraging read repair? An application that sweeps though range-scan + get would trigger read repairs. Also the 1.0 hinting took steps to make hints stored on the coordinator and lessened the need for anti entropy repair. On Wednesday, December 14, 2011, Maxim Potekhin <potek...@bnl.gov> wrote: > What could be the reason I see unequal loads on a 3-node cluster? > This all started happening during repairs (which again are not going smoothly). > > Maxim > >
