The errors from Hints are not concerned with repair. Increasing the rpc_timeout may help with those. If it's logging about 0 hints you may be seeing this https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5068
How did repair hang ? Check for progress with nodetool compactionstats and nodetool netstats. Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Consultant New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 13/04/2013, at 3:01 AM, Alexis RodrÃguez <arodrig...@inconcertcc.com> wrote: > Adeel, > > It may be a problem in the remote node, could you check the system.log? > > Also you might want to check the rpc_timeout_in_ms in both nodes, maybe an > increase in this parameter helps. > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 9:17 AM, <adeel.ak...@panasiangroup.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have started repair on newly added node with -pr and this nodes exist on > another data center. I have 5MB internet connection and configured > setstreamthroughput 1. After some time repair goes hang and following meesage > found in logs; > > # /opt/apache-cassandra-1.1.4/bin/nodetool -h localhost ring > Address DC Rack Status State Load > Effective-Ownership Token > > 169417178424467235000914166253263322299 > 10.0.0.3 DC1 RAC1 Up Normal 93.26 GB 66.67% > 0 > 10.0.0.4 DC1 RAC1 Up Normal 89.1 GB 66.67% > 56713727820156410577229101238628035242 > 10.0.0.15 DC1 RAC1 Up Normal 72.87 GB 66.67% > 113427455640312821154458202477256070484 > 10.40.1.103 DC2 RAC1 Up Normal 48.59 GB > 100.00% 169417178424467235000914166253263322299 > > > INFO [HintedHandoff:1] 2013-04-12 17:05:49,411 HintedHandOffManager.java > (line 372) Timed out replaying hints to /10.40.1.103; aborting further > deliveries > INFO [HintedHandoff:1] 2013-04-12 17:05:49,411 HintedHandOffManager.java > (line 390) Finished hinted handoff of 0 rows to endpoint /10.40.1.103 > > Why we getting this message and how I prevent repair from this error. > > Regards, > > Adeel Akbar >