Not sure about making things go faster, but you should be able to monitor it with nodetool compactionstats.
Thanks, Mike On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Brian Tarbox <tar...@cabotresearch.com>wrote: > I'm recovering from a significant failure and so am doing lots of nodetool > move, removetoken, repair and cleanup. > > For most of these I can do "nodetool netstats" to monitor progress but it > doesn't show anything for cleanup...how can I monitor the progress of > cleanup? On a related note: I'm able to stop all client access to the > cluster until things are happy again...is there anything I can do to make > move/repair/cleanup go faster? > > FWIW my problems came from trying to move nodes between EC2 availability > zones...which led to > 1) killing a node and recreating it in another availability zone > 2) new node had different local ip address so cluster thought old node was > just down and we had a new node... > > I did the removetoken on the dead node and gave the new node > oldToken-1...but things still got weird and I ended up spending a couple of > days cleaning up (which seems odd for only about 300 gig total data). > > Anyway, any suggestions for monitoring / speeding up cleanup would be > appreciated. > > Brian Tarbox > >
