> What happens if they are not being successfully delivered ? Will they > eventually TTL-out ? They have a TTL set to the gc_grace_seconds on the CF at the time of the write.
I’ve also seen hints build up in multi DC systems due to timeouts on the coordinator. i.e. the remote nodes are up, co-ordinator starts the writes, remote nodes process the request (no dropped messages), but the response is lost. These are tracked as timeouts on the MessagingServiceMBean. Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton New Zealand @aaronmorton Co-Founder & Principal Consultant Apache Cassandra Consulting http://www.thelastpickle.com On 22/11/2013, at 6:00 pm, Rahul Menon <ra...@apigee.com> wrote: > Oleg, > > The system keyspace is not replicated it is local to the node. You should > check your logs to see if there are Timeouts from streaming hints, i believe > the default value to stream hints it 10 seconds. When i ran into this problem > i truncated hints to clear out the space and then ran a repair so ensure that > all the data was consistant across all nodes, even if there was a failure. > > -rm > > > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Oleg Dulin <oleg.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > What happens if they are not being successfully delivered ? Will they > eventually TTL-out ? > > > > Also, do I need to truncate hints on every node or is it replicated ? > > > > Oleg > > > > On 2013-11-04 21:34:55 +0000, Robert Coli said: > > > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Oleg Dulin <oleg.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a dual DC setup, 4 nodes, RF=4 in each. > > > > The one that is used as primary has its system keyspace fill up with 200 gigs > of data, majority of which is hints. > > > > Why does this happen ? > > > > How can I clean it up ? > > > > If you have this many hints, you probably have flapping / frequent network > partition, or very overloaded nodes. If you compare the number of hints to > the number of dropped messages, that would be informative. If you're hinting > because you're dropping, increase capacity. If you're hinting because of > partition, figure out why there's so much partition. > > > > WRT cleaning up hints, they will automatically be cleaned up eventually, as > long as they are successfully being delivered. If you need to manually clean > them up you can truncate system.hints keyspace. > > > > =Rob > > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Oleg Dulin > > http://www.olegdulin.com > >
