Thank You! Could the lack of routine repair be why nodetool ring reports: node(1) Load -> 78.24 MB and node(2) Load -> 67.21 MB? The load span between the two nodes has been increasing ever so slowly...
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:00 AM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>wrote: > Here you go > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations#Dealing_with_the_consequences_of_nodetool_repair_not_running_within_GCGraceSeconds > > Cheers > > ----------------- > Aaron Morton > Freelance Developer > @aaronmorton > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > On 21/12/2011, at 2:44 PM, Blake Starkenburg wrote: > > I have been playing around with Cassandra for a few months now. Starting > to explore more of the routine maintenance and backup strategies and I have > a general question about nodetool repair. After reading the following page: > http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.8/operations/cluster_management it has > occurred to me that for these past few months I have NOT DONE any cleanup > or repair commands on a test 2-node cluster (and their has been quite a few > deletes, writes, etc.). > > For some reason I was under the assumption that Cassandra handled the > tombstone records from deletes automatically? Should I still run nodetool > repair and if so, what about old deletes which occurred months ago? > > Thank You! > > >
