> 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...
No. Generally there will be a variation in load depending on what state compaction happens to be in on the given node (I am assuming you're not using leveled compaction). That is in addition to any imbalance that might result from your population of data in the cluster. Running repair can affect the live size, but *lack* of repair won't cause a live size divergence. -- / Peter Schuller (@scode, http://worldmodscode.wordpress.com)
