You should check the cassandra.yaml file. There is an initial_token in that file that you should have set. The comment above that property reads
# You should always specify InitialToken when setting up a production # cluster for the first time, and often when adding capacity later. # The principle is that each node should be given an equal slice of # the token ring; see http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations # for more details. # # If blank, Cassandra will request a token bisecting the range of # the heaviest-loaded existing node. If there is no load information # available, such as is the case with a new cluster, it will pick # a random token, which will lead to hot spots. Naturally, he is referring to that link when he says manual ;) AND notice the "which will lead to hot spots" comment. Later, Dean From: Darvin Denmian <darvin.denm...@gmail.com<mailto:darvin.denm...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Date: Monday, October 1, 2012 6:56 AM To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Subject: Re: Rebalancing cluster Did you set up the tokens the way the manual says?
