I’ve got "hinted_handoff_enabled: true" in cassandra.yaml. My settings are all default except for the DC, listen addresses and snitch. I should have mentioned this in my original post.
On Dec 14, 2014, at 8:02 AM, Rahul Neelakantan <ra...@rahul.be> wrote: > http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/configuration/configCassandra_yaml_r.html?scroll=reference_ds_qfg_n1r_1k__hinted_handoff_enabled > > Rahul > >> On Dec 14, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Robert Wille <rwi...@fold3.com> wrote: >> >> I have a cluster with RF=3. If I shut down one node, add a bunch of data to >> the cluster, I don’t see a bunch of records added to system.hints. Also, du >> of /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/hints of the nodes that are up shows that >> hints aren’t being stored. When I start the down node, its data doesn’t grow >> until I run repair, which then takes a really long time because it is >> significantly out of date. Is there some magic setting I cannot find in the >> documentation to enable hinted handoff? I’m running 2.0.11. Any insights >> would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks >> >> Robert >>
