I am running 1.2.4 with Vnodes and have been writing at low volume. I have doubled the volume and suddenly 3 of my 6 nodes are showing much higher load than the others (30 vs 3) and tpstats show the mutation stage as completely full (see below). I did find a FileNotFoundException that I pasted below which appears to be caused by creating, dropping, and creating a keyspace (something I did but 4 or 5 days ago). Anyone have any idea what's going on here?
Thanks Keiths-MacBook-Pro:bin keith$ ./nodetool tpstats -h lxpcas005.nanigans.com Pool Name Active Pending Completed Blocked All time blocked ReadStage 0 0 130990 0 0 RequestResponseStage 0 0 344216 0 0 MutationStage 128 452 3464036 0 0 ReadRepairStage 0 0 14131 0 0 ReplicateOnWriteStage 0 0 32872 0 0 GossipStage 1 611 6351 0 0 AntiEntropyStage 0 0 0 0 0 MigrationStage 0 0 9 0 0 MemtablePostFlusher 0 0 91 0 0 FlushWriter 0 0 60 0 27 MiscStage 0 0 0 0 0 commitlog_archiver 0 0 0 0 0 InternalResponseStage 0 0 3 0 0 HintedHandoff 1 1 13 0 0 Message type Dropped RANGE_SLICE 0 READ_REPAIR 54 BINARY 0 READ 0 MUTATION 8539 _TRACE 0 REQUEST_RESPONSE 0 ERROR [ReplicateOnWriteStage:95404] 2013-05-06 14:55:06,555 CassandraDaemon.java (line 174) Exception in thread Thread[ReplicateOnWriteStage:95404,5,main] java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /data/1/cassandra/data/users/global_user_stats/users-global_user_stats-ib-30716-Data.db (No such file or directory) at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageProxy$DroppableRunnable.run(StorageProxy.java:1582) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /data/1/cassandra/data/users/global_user_stats/users-global_user_stats-ib-30716-Data.db (No such file or directory) at org.apache.cassandra.io.compress.CompressedRandomAccessReader.open(CompressedRandomAccessReader.java:46) at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.CompressedSegmentedFile.createReader(CompressedSegmentedFile.java:57) at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.PoolingSegmentedFile.getSegment(PoolingSegmentedFile.java:41) at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableReader.getFileDataInput(SSTableReader.java:976) at org.apache.cassandra.db.columniterator.SSTableNamesIterator.createFileDataInput(SSTableNamesIterator.java:98) at org.apache.cassandra.db.columniterator.SSTableNamesIterator.read(SSTableNamesIterator.java:117) at org.apache.cassandra.db.columniterator.SSTableNamesIterator.<init>(SSTableNamesIterator.java:64) at org.apache.cassandra.db.filter.NamesQueryFilter.getSSTableColumnIterator(NamesQueryFilter.java:81) at org.apache.cassandra.db.filter.QueryFilter.getSSTableColumnIterator(QueryFilter.java:68) at org.apache.cassandra.db.CollationController.collectAllData(CollationController.java:274) at org.apache.cassandra.db.CollationController.getTopLevelColumns(CollationController.java:65) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.getTopLevelColumns(ColumnFamilyStore.java:1357) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.getColumnFamily(ColumnFamilyStore.java:1214) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.getColumnFamily(ColumnFamilyStore.java:1126) at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.getRow(Table.java:347) at org.apache.cassandra.db.SliceByNamesReadCommand.getRow(SliceByNamesReadCommand.java:64) at org.apache.cassandra.db.CounterMutation.makeReplicationMutation(CounterMutation.java:90) at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageProxy$7$1.runMayThrow(StorageProxy.java:796) at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageProxy$DroppableRunnable.run(StorageProxy.java:1578) ... 3 more Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /data/1/cassandra/data/users/global_user_stats/users-global_user_stats-ib-30716-Data.db (No such file or directory) at java.io.RandomAccessFile.open(Native Method) at java.io.RandomAccessFile.<init>(RandomAccessFile.java:233) at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.RandomAccessReader.<init>(RandomAccessReader.java:67) at org.apache.cassandra.io.compress.CompressedRandomAccessReader.<init>(CompressedRandomAccessReader.java:75) at org.apache.cassandra.io.compress.CompressedRandomAccessReader.open(CompressedRandomAccessReader.java:42) ... 21 more