Nope. I added millions of records and several GB to the cluster while one node was down, and then ran "nodetool flush system hints" on a couple of nodes that were up, and system/hints has less than 200K in it.
Here’s the relevant part of "nodetool cfstats system.hints": Keyspace: system Read Count: 28572 Read Latency: 0.01806502869942601 ms. Write Count: 351 Write Latency: 0.04547008547008547 ms. Pending Tasks: 0 Table: hints SSTable count: 1 Space used (live), bytes: 7446 Space used (total), bytes: 80062 SSTable Compression Ratio: 0.2651441528992549 Number of keys (estimate): 128 Memtable cell count: 1 Memtable data size, bytes: 1740 The hints are definitely not being stored. Robert On Dec 14, 2014, at 11:44 PM, Jens Rantil <jens.ran...@tink.se<mailto:jens.ran...@tink.se>> wrote: Hi Robert , Maybe you need to flush your memtables to actually see the disk usage increase? This applies to both hosts. Cheers, Jens On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Robert Wille <rwi...@fold3.com<mailto: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down node, its data doesn’t grow until I run repair, which then takes a really long time because it is significantly out of date.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