Are you using compression ? I remember some issues with compression and reported load, cannot remember the details.
Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 17/02/2012, at 3:27 AM, Bill Au wrote: > I am running 1.0.2 with the default tiered compaction. After running a > "nodetool compact", I noticed that on about half of the machines in my > cluster, both "nodetool ring" and "nodetool info" report that the load is > actually higher than before when I expect it to be lower. It is almost twice > as much as before. I did a du command on the data directory and found the > the actual disk usage is only about half of what's being reported by > nodetool. Since I am running 1.0.2, there are no compacted sstables waiting > to be removed. I manually trigger a full GC in the JVM but that made no > difference. When I restarted Cassandra, nodetool once again report the > correct load. > > Is this a known problem? > > Bill
