Here is a chunk of bloom filter sstable skip messages from the node I enabled DEBUG on:
DEBUG [OptionalTasks:1] 2013-04-04 02:44:01,450 SSTableReader.java (line 737) Bloom filter allows skipping sstable 39459 DEBUG [OptionalTasks:1] 2013-04-04 02:44:01,450 SSTableReader.java (line 737) Bloom filter allows skipping sstable 39483 DEBUG [OptionalTasks:1] 2013-04-04 02:44:01,450 SSTableReader.java (line 737) Bloom filter allows skipping sstable 39332 DEBUG [OptionalTasks:1] 2013-04-04 02:44:01,450 SSTableReader.java (line 737) Bloom filter allows skipping sstable 39335 DEBUG [OptionalTasks:1] 2013-04-04 02:44:01,450 SSTableReader.java (line 737) Bloom filter allows skipping sstable 39438 DEBUG [OptionalTasks:1] 2013-04-04 02:44:01,450 SSTableReader.java (line 737) Bloom filter allows skipping sstable 39478 DEBUG [OptionalTasks:1] 2013-04-04 02:44:01,450 SSTableReader.java (line 737) Bloom filter allows skipping sstable 39456 DEBUG [OptionalTasks:1] 2013-04-04 02:44:01,450 SSTableReader.java (line 737) Bloom filter allows skipping sstable 39469 DEBUG [OptionalTasks:1] 2013-04-04 02:44:01,451 SSTableReader.java (line 737) Bloom filter allows skipping sstable 39334 DEBUG [OptionalTasks:1] 2013-04-04 02:44:01,451 SSTableReader.java (line 737) Bloom filter allows skipping sstable 39406 This is the last chunk of log before C* gets stuck, right before I stop the process, remove key caches and start again (This is from another node that I upgraded 2 days ago): INFO [SSTableBatchOpen:2] 2013-04-03 01:59:39,769 SSTableReader.java (line 166) Opening /var/lib/cassandra/data/cardspring_production/UniqueIndexes/cardspring_production-UniqueIndexes-hf-316499 (5273270 bytes) INFO [SSTableBatchOpen:1] 2013-04-03 01:59:39,858 SSTableReader.java (line 166) Opening /var/lib/cassandra/data/cardspring_production/UniqueIndexes/cardspring_production-UniqueIndexes-hf-314755 (5264359 bytes) INFO [SSTableBatchOpen:2] 2013-04-03 01:59:39,894 SSTableReader.java (line 166) Opening /var/lib/cassandra/data/cardspring_production/UniqueIndexes/cardspring_production-UniqueIndexes-hf-314762 (5260887 bytes) INFO [SSTableBatchOpen:1] 2013-04-03 01:59:39,980 SSTableReader.java (line 166) Opening /var/lib/cassandra/data/cardspring_production/UniqueIndexes/cardspring_production-UniqueIndexes-hf-315886 (5262864 bytes) INFO [OptionalTasks:1] 2013-04-03 01:59:40,298 AutoSavingCache.java (line 112) reading saved cache /var/lib/cassandra/saved_caches/cardspring_production-UniqueIndexes-KeyCache I finally upgrade all 12 nodes in our test environment yesterday. This issue seemed to exists on 7 nodes out of 12 nodes. They didn't alway get stuck on the same CF loading its saved KeyCache. On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 9:56 AM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>wrote: > skipping sstable due to bloom filter debug messages > > What were these messages? > > Do you have the logs from the start up ? > > Cheers > > ----------------- > Aaron Morton > Freelance Cassandra Consultant > New Zealand > > @aaronmorton > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > On 4/04/2013, at 6:11 AM, Arya Goudarzi <gouda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have upgraded 2 nodes out of a 12 mode test cluster from 1.1.10 to > 1.2.3. During startup while tailing C*'s system.log, I observed a series of > SSTable batch load messages and skipping sstable due to bloom filter debug > messages which is normal for startup, but when it reached loading saved key > caches, it gets stuck forever. The I/O wait stays high in the CPU graph and > I/O ops are sent to disk, but C* never passes that step of loading the key > cache file successfully. The saved key cache file was about 75MB on one > node and 125MB on the other node and they were for different CFs. > > <image.jpeg> > > The CPU I/O wait constantly stayed at 40%~ while system.log was stuck at > loading one saved key cache file. I have marked that on the graph above. > The workaround was to delete the saved cache files and things loaded fine > (See marked Normal Startup). > > These machines are m1.xlarge EC2 instances. And this issue happened on > both nodes upgraded. This did not happen during exercise of upgrade from > 1.1.6 to 1.2.2 using the same snapshot. > > Should I raise a JIRA? > > -Arya > > >