Oops, forgot to mention that, did I… Cass 1.1.10. 

What is the sanctioned way of removing hints? rm -f HintsColumnFamily*? 
Truncate from CLI?

This is ls -l of my /system/HintsColumnFamily/ btw - the only one with zero 
size are the -tmp- files.  It seems odd…

-rw-rw-r--  1 ubuntu ubuntu 86373144 Jan 26 21:39 
system-HintsColumnFamily-hf-11-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 ubuntu ubuntu       80 Jan 26 21:39 
system-HintsColumnFamily-hf-11-Digest.sha1
-rw-rw-r--  1 ubuntu ubuntu      976 Jan 26 21:39 
system-HintsColumnFamily-hf-11-Filter.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 ubuntu ubuntu       11 Jan 26 21:39 
system-HintsColumnFamily-hf-11-Index.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 ubuntu ubuntu     4348 Jan 26 21:39 
system-HintsColumnFamily-hf-11-Statistics.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 ubuntu ubuntu      569 Feb 27 08:33 
system-HintsColumnFamily-hf-23-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 ubuntu ubuntu       80 Feb 27 08:33 
system-HintsColumnFamily-hf-23-Digest.sha1
-rw-rw-r--  1 ubuntu ubuntu     1936 Feb 27 08:33 
system-HintsColumnFamily-hf-23-Filter.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 ubuntu ubuntu       11 Feb 27 08:33 
system-HintsColumnFamily-hf-23-Index.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 ubuntu ubuntu     4356 Feb 27 08:33 
system-HintsColumnFamily-hf-23-Statistics.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 ubuntu ubuntu  5500155 Feb 27 08:57 
system-HintsColumnFamily-hf-24-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 ubuntu ubuntu       80 Feb 27 08:57 
system-HintsColumnFamily-hf-24-Digest.sha1
-rw-rw-r--  1 ubuntu ubuntu       16 Feb 27 08:57 
system-HintsColumnFamily-hf-24-Filter.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 ubuntu ubuntu       26 Feb 27 08:57 
system-HintsColumnFamily-hf-24-Index.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 ubuntu ubuntu     4340 Feb 27 08:57 
system-HintsColumnFamily-hf-24-Statistics.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 ubuntu ubuntu        0 Feb 27 08:57 
system-HintsColumnFamily-tmp-hf-25-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 ubuntu ubuntu        0 Feb 27 08:57 
system-HintsColumnFamily-tmp-hf-25-Index.db


/Janne

On Mar 12, 2013, at 08:07 , aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote:

> What version of cassandra are you using?
> I would stop each node and delete the hints. If it happens again I could 
> either indicate a failing disk or a bug. 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -----------------
> Aaron Morton
> Freelance Cassandra Consultant
> New Zealand
> 
> @aaronmorton
> http://www.thelastpickle.com
> 
> On 11/03/2013, at 2:13 PM, Robert Coli <robert.d.a.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Janne Jalkanen
>> <janne.jalka...@ecyrd.com> wrote:
>>> I keep seeing these in my log.  Three-node cluster, one node is working 
>>> fine, but two other nodes have increased latencies and these in the error 
>>> logs (might of course be unrelated). No obvious GC pressure, no disk errors 
>>> that I can see.  Ubuntu 12.04 on EC2, Java 7. Repair is run regularly.
>>> 
>>> My two questions: 1) should I worry, and 2) what might be going on, and 3) 
>>> is there any way to get rid of these? Can I just blow my HintedHandoff 
>>> table to smithereens?
>> 
>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/trunk/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/io/sstable/IndexHelper.java
>> "
>> public static Filter defreezeBloomFilter(FileDataInput file, long
>> maxSize, boolean useOldBuffer) throws IOException
>>    {
>>        int size = file.readInt();
>>        if (size > maxSize || size <= 0)
>>            throw new EOFException("bloom filter claims to be " + size
>> + " bytes, longer than entire row size " + maxSize);
>>        ByteBuffer bytes = file.readBytes(size);
>> "
>> 
>> Based on the above, I would suspect either a zero byte -Filter.db file
>> or a corrupt one. Probably worry a little bit, but only a little bit
>> unless your cluster is RF=1.
>> 
>> =Rob
> 

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