Hi Richard, This is a brand new cluster which started with num_tokens =256 on first boot and chose random tokens. The attached ring status is after data is loaded into the cluster for the first time using sdtableloader and remains that way even after Cassandra is restarted.
Thanks, Suruchi On Sep 19, 2013, at 3:46, Richard Low <rich...@wentnet.com> wrote: > On 19 September 2013 02:06, Jayadev Jayaraman <jdisal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> We use vnodes with num_tokens = 256 ( 256 tokens per node ) . After loading >> some data with sstableloader , we find that the cluster is heavily >> imbalanced : > > How did you select the tokens? Is this a brand new cluster which started on > first boot with num_tokens = 256 and chose random tokens? Or did you start > with num_tokens = 1 and then increase it? > > Richard.
