Thanks for the detailed response. I checked ‘nodetool netstats’ and I see there are pending streams, all of which are stuck at 0%. I was expecting to see at least one output that was more than 0%. Have you seen this before?
Side question – does a new node stream from other nodes in any particular order? Perhaps this is a coincidence, but if I were to sort my hostnames in alphabetical order, it’s currently streaming from the last 2. From: Mark Reddy [mailto:mark.re...@boxever.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 4:42 AM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: bootstrapping new nodes on 1.2.12 Hi Parag, 1) Would anyone be able to help me interrupt this information from OpsCenter? At a high level bootstrapping a new node has two phases, streaming and secondary index builds. I believe OpsCenter will only report active streams, the pending stream will be listed as such in OpsCenter as well. In OpsCenter rather than looking at the Data Size check the used space on the Storage Capacity pie chart, this will show how much data is on disk but not necessarily live on the node yet. Personally I would check 'nodetool netstats' to see what streams are remaining, this will list all active / pending stream and what files are to be streamed, at the moment you might just be streaming some very large files and once complete you will see a dramatic increase in data size. If streaming is complete and you use secondary indexes, check 'nodetool compcationstats' for any secondary index builds that may be taking place. 2) Is there anything I can do to speed this up? If you have the capacity you could increase stream_throughput_outbound_megabits_per_sec in your cassandra.yaml If you don't have the capacity you could add more nodes to spread the data so you stream less in future. Finally you could upgrade to 2.0.x as it contains a complete refactor of streaming and should make your streaming sessions more robust and transparent: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5286 Mark On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 3:15 AM, Parag Patel <ppa...@clearpoolgroup.com<mailto:ppa...@clearpoolgroup.com>> wrote: Hi, It’s taking a while to boostrap a 13th node into a 12 node cluster. The average node size is about 1.7TB. At the beginning of today we were close to .9TB on the new node and 12 hours later we’re at 1.1TB. I figured it would have finished by now because when I was looking on OpsCenter, there were 2 transfers remaining. 1 was at 0% and the other was at 2%. I look again now and those same nodes haven’t progressed all day. Instead I see 9 more transfers (some of which are progressing). 1) Would anyone be able to help me interrupt this information from OpsCenter? 2) Is there anything I can do to speed this up? Thanks, Parag