This could be due to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8239, which is fixed in 2.1.2.
However, it sounds like the SSTables were present immediately after upgrading, which would rule that out. On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Andreas Finke <andreas.fi...@solvians.com> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > > > thanks for your fast reply. Luckily this was a upgrade in QA environment > ;) We are running SizeTierCompaction. I wonder whether all those files were > created during running sstables command. Unfortunately we didn’t check at > that time. > > > > I will try to reproduce again and if this is the case open an issue. > > > > However thanks for the link. This is really useful. > > > > Thanks! > > Andi > > > > *From:* Robert Coli [mailto:rc...@eventbrite.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, November 20, 2014 5:14 PM > *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: Upgrade: C* 2.0.8 -> C* 2.1.1 - Ten thousands of sstable > files > > > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 7:00 AM, Andreas Finke <andreas.fi...@solvians.com> > wrote: > > we upgraded a 6 node Cluster from Cassandra 2.0.7 to 2.1.1 recently > sticking to this guide > > > > After upgrade cluster was less responsive than before. One node did not > came up at all. > > > > For the record : > > > > https://engineering.eventbrite.com/what-version-of-cassandra-should-i-run/ > > > > > =Rob > > > -- Tyler Hobbs DataStax <http://datastax.com/>