Erik, Currently, streaming failure handling is poorly functioning. There are several discussions and bug reports regarding streaming failure on jira.
Hanged streaming session will be left in memory unless you restart C*, but it does not cause problem I believe. -- Yuki Morishita On Friday, February 17, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Erik Forsberg wrote: > Hi! > > If I run a hadoop job that uses BulkOutputFormat to write data to > Cassandra, and that hadoop job is aborted, i.e. streaming sessions are > not completed, it seems like the streaming sessions hang around for a > very long time, I've observed at least 12-15h, in output from 'nodetool > netstats'. > > To me it seems like they go away only after a restart of Cassandra. > > Is this a known behaviour? Does it cause any problems, f. ex. consuming > memory, or should I just ignore it? > > Regards, > \EF > >