maybe check the system.log to see if there is any exception and/or error? check as well if they are having consistent schema for the keyspace?
hth jason On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Michael Theroux <mthero...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello, > > We (finally) have just upgraded from Cassandra 1.1 to Cassandra 1.2.19. > Everything appears to be up and running normally, however, we have noticed > unusual output from nodetool ring. There is a new (to us) field "Replicas" > in the nodetool output, and this field, seemingly at random, is changing > from 2 to 3 and back to 2. > > We are using the byte ordered partitioner (we hash our own keys), and have > a replication factor of 3. We are also on AWS and utilize the Ec2snitch on > a single Datacenter. > > Other calls appear to be normal. "nodetool getEndpoints" returns the > proper endpoints when querying various keys, nodetool ring and status > return that all nodes appear healthy. > > Anyone have any hints on what maybe happening, or if this is a problem we > should be concerned with? > > Thanks, > -Mike > >