It needs to stream all its data to the other node, which may take a long time. You can use nodetool netstats to see the progress of streaming.
Best, Cheng On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Aniket Chakrabarti < chakr...@cse.ohio-state.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to use nodetool decommission to remove a node from the > cluster(it is just a 2 node cluster). It hangs with the following log: > ==============================**========== > INFO [RMI TCP Connection(4)-164.107.119.50] 2012-04-21 11:07:15,095 > StorageService.java (line 668) LEAVING: sleeping 30000 ms for pending range > setup > INFO [RMI TCP Connection(4)-164.107.119.50] 2012-04-21 11:07:45,251 > StorageService.java (line 668) LEAVING: streaming data to other nodes > INFO [StreamStage:1] 2012-04-21 11:07:45,259 StreamOut.java (line 114) > Beginning transfer to /10.2.246.0 > INFO [StreamStage:1] 2012-04-21 11:07:45,262 StreamOut.java (line 95) > Flushing memtables for [CFS(Keyspace='keyspace1', > ColumnFamily='Standard1')]... > INFO [StreamStage:1] 2012-04-21 11:07:45,262 StreamOut.java (line 160) > Stream context metadata [], 0 sstables. > INFO [StreamStage:1] 2012-04-21 11:07:45,264 StreamOutSession.java (line > 203) Streaming to /10.2.246.0 > ==============================**========== > > Any pointers will be very helpful. > > Thanks, > Aniket >