Hi, Here is the stack trace that we get from sstableloader
org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused at org.apache.cassandra.tools.BulkLoader$ExternalClient.init(BulkLoader.java:229) at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableLoader.stream(SSTableLoader.java:104) at org.apache.cassandra.tools.BulkLoader.main(BulkLoader.java:61) Caused by: org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused at org.apache.thrift.transport.TSocket.open(TSocket.java:183) at org.apache.thrift.transport.TFramedTransport.open(TFramedTransport.java:81) at org.apache.cassandra.tools.BulkLoader$ExternalClient.createThriftClient(BulkLoader.java:249) at org.apache.cassandra.tools.BulkLoader$ExternalClient.init(BulkLoader.java:197) ... 2 more Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:351) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:213) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:200) at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:529) at org.apache.thrift.transport.TSocket.open(TSocket.java:178) Thanks! On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Sanjeev Kulkarni <sanj...@locomatix.com>wrote: > Hey guys, > We have a fresh 4 node 0.8.10 cluster that we want to pump lots of data > into. > The data resides on 5 data machines that are different from Cassandra > nodes. Each of these data nodes has 7 disks where the data resides. > In order to get maximum load performance, we are assigning 7 ips to > each data node on the same interface(eth2:0, eth2:1, ...). I also make > multiple copies of cassandra conf directory(/etc/cassandra). Each > cassandra conf is identical except for listen and rpc address. We then > start multiple simultaneous sstable loaders each pointing to different > config. We do this on all data nodes. > What we are seeing is the first sstableloader on each machine starts > loading. However the rest fail with connection refused error. They log > this message 8 times and then bail out. Any idea what could be wrong? > Thanks! > > > Sent from my iPhone >