I can see from cfhistograms that I do have some wide rows (see below).  I set 
trace probability as you suggested but the output doesn’t appear to tell me 
what row was actually read unless I missed something.  I just see executing 
prepared statement.   Any ideas how I can find the row in question?

I am considering reducing read_request_timeout_in_ms: 5000 in cassandra.yaml so 
that it reduces the impact when this occurs.

Any help in identifying my issue would be GREATLY appreciated


Cell Count per Partition

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35425 cells: 0

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61214 cells: 2

From: DuyHai Doan <doanduy...@gmail.com<mailto:doanduy...@gmail.com>>
Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" 
<user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>>
Date: Thursday, July 24, 2014 at 3:01 PM
To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" 
<user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>>
Subject: Re: Hot, large row

"How can I detect wide rows?" -->

nodetool cfhistograms <keyspace> <suspected column family>

Look at column "Column count" (last column) and identify a line in this column 
with very high value of "Offset". In a well designed application you should 
have a gaussian distribution where 80% of your row have a similar number of 
columns.

"Anyone know what debug level I can set so that I can see what reads the hot 
node is handling?  " -->

"nodetool settraceprobability <value>",  where value is a small number (0.001) 
on the node where you encounter the issue. Activate the tracing for a while (5 
mins) and deactivate it (value = 0). Then look into system_traces tables 
"events" & "sessions". It may help or not since the tracing is done once every 
1000.

"Any way to get the server to blacklist these wide rows automatically?" --> No


On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Keith Wright 
<kwri...@nanigans.com<mailto:kwri...@nanigans.com>> wrote:
Hi all,

   We are seeing an issue where basically daily one of our nodes spikes in load 
and is churning in CMS heap pressure.  It appears that reads are backing up and 
my guess is that our application is reading a large row repeatedly.  Our write 
structure can lead itself to wide rows very infrequently (<0.001%) and we do 
our best to detect and delete them but obviously we’re missing a case.  Hoping 
for assistance on the following questions:

 *   How can I detect wide rows?
 *   Anyone know what debug level I can set so that I can see what reads the 
hot node is handling?  I’m hoping to see the “bad” row
 *   Any way to get the server to blacklist these wide rows automatically?

We’re using C* 2.0.6 with Vnodes.

Thanks

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