What is the Cassandra version? Are the same sstables being compacted over and over?
Please post a sample of the compaction log and the output of "DESCRIBE TABLE system.hints;" on cqlsh. Cheers, On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Igor Shprukh <i...@newage.co.il> wrote: > > ------------------------------ > > > hi guys, we have a 6 node cluster, consisting of 5 linux machines and a > windows one. > > after a hard shutdown of the windows machine, the node is stuck on hints > compaction for more than > > half an hour and cassandra won't start. must say that it is a strong > machine with 16gb of ram and 250 gb of space dedicated to the node. all > other nodes are up. > > > what could be the problem causing this? > > thank you in advance. > > > -- *Paulo Motta* Chaordic | *Platform* *www.chaordic.com.br <http://www.chaordic.com.br/>* +55 48 3232.3200