> Isn't decomission meant to do the same thing as disablethrift and gossip?
decommission removes a node entirely from the cluster, including streaming it's data to other nodes. disablethrift and disablegossip just stop it from responding to clients and other nodes. Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 27/02/2012, at 2:26 PM, Mohit Anchlia wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:18 PM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> > wrote: > Nathan Milford has a post about taking a node down > > http://blog.milford.io/2011/11/rolling-upgrades-for-cassandra/ > > The only thing I would do differently would be turn off thrift first. > > Cheers > > Isn't decomission meant to do the same thing as disablethrift and gossip? > > > ----------------- > Aaron Morton > Freelance Developer > @aaronmorton > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > On 27/02/2012, at 4:35 AM, Edward Capriolo wrote: > >> If you are doing a planned maintenance you can flush first as well >> ensuring the that the commit logs will not be as large. >> >> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Radim Kolar <h...@sendmail.cz> wrote: >>>> if a node goes down, it will take longer for commitlog replay. >>> >>> commit log replay time is insignificant. most time during node startup is >>> wasted on index sampling. Index sampling here runs for about 15 minutes. > >