Hello I have follow situation on our test server:
from cassandra-cli i try to use truncate purchase_history; 3 times i got: [default@township_6waves] truncate purchase_history; null UnavailableException() at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$truncate_result.read(Cassandra.java:20212) at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Client.recv_truncate(Cassandra.java:1077) at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Client.truncate(Cassandra.java:1052) at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliClient.executeTruncate(CliClient.java:1445) at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliClient.executeCLIStatement(CliClient.java:272) at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.processStatementInteractive(CliMain.java:220) at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.main(CliMain.java:348) So this looks that truncate goes very slow and too long, than rpc_timeout_in_ms: 10000 (this can happens because we have very slow disck on test machine) But in in cassandra system log i see follow exception: ERROR [MutationStage:7022] 2012-05-17 12:19:14,356 AbstractCassandraDaemon.java (line 139) Fatal exception in thread Thread[MutationStage:7022,5,main] java.io.IOError: java.io.IOException: unable to mkdirs /home/cassandra/1.0.0/data/township_6waves/snapshots/1337242754356-purchase_history at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.snapshotWithoutFlush(ColumnFamilyStore.java:1433) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.snapshot(ColumnFamilyStore.java:1462) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.truncate(ColumnFamilyStore.java:1657) at org.apache.cassandra.db.TruncateVerbHandler.doVerb(TruncateVerbHandler.java:50) at org.apache.cassandra.net.MessageDeliveryTask.run(MessageDeliveryTask.java:59) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) Caused by: java.io.IOException: unable to mkdirs /home/cassandra/1.0.0/data/township_6waves/snapshots/1337242754356-purchase_history at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileUtils.createDirectory(FileUtils.java:140) at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileUtils.createDirectory(FileUtils.java:131) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.snapshotWithoutFlush(ColumnFamilyStore.java:1409) ... 7 more Also i see that in snapshort dir already exists 1337242754356-purchase_history directory, so i think that snapshort names that generate cassandra not uniquely. PS: We use cassandra 1.0.10 on Ubuntu 10.0.4-LTS