Thanks for your replies. I wiped out my data from the cluster and also cleared the commitlog before restarting it with num_tokens=256. I then uploaded data using sstableloader.
However, I am still not able to see a uniform distribution of data across nodes of the clusters. The output of the bin/nodetool -h localhost status commands looks like follows. Some nodes have data as low as 1.12MB while some have as high as 912.57 MB. Datacenter: us-east =================== Status=Up/Down |/ State=Normal/Leaving/Joining/Moving -- Address Load Tokens Owns (effective) Host ID Rack UN 10.238.133.174 856.66 MB 256 8.4% e41d8863-ce37-4d5c-a428-bfacea432a35 1a UN 10.238.133.97 439.02 MB 256 7.7% 1bf42b5e-4aed-4b06-bdb3-65a78823b547 1a UN 10.151.86.146 1.05 GB 256 8.0% 8952645d-4a27-4670-afb2-65061c205734 1a UN 10.138.10.9 912.57 MB 256 8.6% 25ccea82-49d2-43d9-830c-b9c9cee026ec 1a UN 10.87.87.240 70.85 MB 256 8.6% ea066827-83bc-458c-83e8-bd15b7fc783c 1b UN 10.93.5.157 60.56 MB 256 7.6% 4ab9111c-39b4-4d15-9401-359d9d853c16 1b UN 10.92.231.170 866.73 MB 256 9.3% a18ce761-88a0-4407-bbd1-c867c4fecd1f 1b UN 10.238.137.250 533.77 MB 256 7.8% 84301648-afff-4f06-aa0b-4be421e0d08f 1a UN 10.93.91.139 478.45 KB 256 8.1% 682dd848-7c7f-4ddb-a960-119cf6491aa1 1b UN 10.138.2.20 1.12 MB 256 7.9% a6d4672a-0915-4c64-ba47-9f190abbf951 1a UN 10.93.31.44 282.65 MB 256 7.8% 67a6c0a6-e89f-4f3e-b996-cdded1b94faf 1b UN 10.236.138.169 223.66 MB 256 9.1% cbbf27b0-b53a-4530-bfdf-3764730b89d8 1a UN 10.137.7.90 11.36 MB 256 7.4% 17b79aa7-64fc-4e16-b96a-955b0aae9bb4 1a UN 10.93.77.166 837.64 MB 256 8.8% 9a821d1e-40e5-445d-b6b7-3cdd58bdb8cb 1b UN 10.120.249.140 838.59 MB 256 9.4% e1fb69b0-8e66-4deb-9e72-f901d7a14e8a 1b UN 10.90.246.128 216.75 MB 256 8.4% 054911ec-969d-43d9-aea1-db445706e4d2 1b UN 10.123.95.248 147.1 MB 256 7.2% a17deca1-9644-4520-9e62-ac66fc6fef60 1b UN 10.136.11.40 4.24 MB 256 8.5% 66be1173-b822-40b5-b650-cb38ae3c7a51 1a UN 10.87.90.42 11.56 MB 256 8.0% dac0c6ea-56c6-44da-a4ec-6388f39ecba1 1b UN 10.87.75.147 549 MB 256 8.3% ac060edf-dc48-44cf-a1b5-83c7a465f3c8 1b UN 10.151.49.88 119.86 MB 256 8.9% 57043573-ab1b-4e3c-8044-58376f7ce08f 1a UN 10.87.83.107 484.3 MB 256 8.3% 0019439b-9f8a-4965-91b8-7108bbb55593 1b UN 10.137.20.183 137.67 MB 256 8.4% 15951592-8ab2-473d-920a-da6e9d99507d 1a UN 10.238.170.159 49.17 MB 256 9.4% 32ce322e-4f7c-46c7-a8ce-bd73cdd54684 1a Is there something else that I should be doing differently? Thanks for your help! Suruchi On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Richard Low <rich...@wentnet.com> wrote: > The only thing you need to guarantee is that Cassandra doesn't start with > num_tokens=1 (the default in 1.2.x) or, if it does, that you wipe all the > data before starting it with higher num_tokens. > > > On 19 September 2013 19:07, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Suruchi Deodhar < >> suruchi.deod...@generalsentiment.com> wrote: >> >>> Do you suggest I should try with some other installation mechanism? Are >>> there any known problems with the tar installation of cassandra 1.2.9 that >>> I should be aware of? >>> >> >> I was asking in the context of this JIRA : >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2356 >> >> Which does not seem to apply in your case! >> >> =Rob >> > >