What client Cassandra driver are you using? Java?
Java driver 2.1.8

Is there only a single thread in each client or are there multiple threads
Multi in parallel.

What does your connection code look like
It’s a very large class based on config files, but I believe you’re interested 
in this line


cluster.withLoadBalancingPolicy(
  new 
DCAwareRoundRobinPolicy(config.getString(ConfigurationKeys.CassandraDataCenterName),
    
config.getInt(ConfigurationKeys.CassandraFailoverDataCenterNodesToLookAt),true))

with each of our application having a different (local) Datacenter name.

Steve

From: Jack Krupansky [mailto:jack.krupan...@gmail.com]
Sent: 04 December 2015 16:46
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: cassandra reads are unbalanced

Thanks for the elaboration. A few more questions...

Is there only a single thread in each client or are there multiple threads 
doing reading in parallel? IOW, does a read need to complete before the next 
read is issued.

What client Cassandra driver are you using? Java?

What does your connection code look like, say compared to the example in the 
doc:
http://docs.datastax.com/en/developer/java-driver/2.0/java-driver/quick_start/qsSimpleClientCreate_t.html

Just to make sure it really is connecting only to the local cluster and using 
round robin and whether it is token aware.


-- Jack Krupansky

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Walsh, Stephen 
<stephen.wa...@aspect.com<mailto:stephen.wa...@aspect.com>> wrote:
Thanks for your input, but I think I’ve already answered most of your questions.


How many clients do you have performing reads?

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On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Walsh, Stephen 
<stephen.wa...@aspect.com<mailto:stephen.wa...@aspect.com>> wrote
….
There are 2 application (1 for each DC) who read and write at the same rate to 
their local DC
….
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Is your load balancer in front of your clients or between your clients and 
Cassandra?

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On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 4:58 AM, Walsh, Stephen 
<stephen.wa...@aspect.com<mailto:stephen.wa...@aspect.com>> wrote:
…
our production applications are behind a round robin load balancer
…
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No Load Balancers talk to cassandra – I’m only mentioning this to show that the 
writes / read are evenly distributed over the 2 DC’s






Does Node1 of DC2 have the exact same configuration of hardware of the other 
nodes
Yes





Is it in the same rack
It’s in AWS – but we have it configured via the GossipProperytFileSnitch that 
they are all on unique racks






Maybe your load balancer thinks that node is more capable and handles requests 
faster so that it looks less loaded than the other two nodes
Unlikely, it’s all TCP SSL pass though connections. It doesn’t balance on load, 
it just round robins each request





You might also check the read counts after a very short interval of time to see 
if Node1 is uniformly getting more requests or just occasionally
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On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Walsh, Stephen 
<stephen.wa...@aspect.com<mailto:stephen.wa...@aspect.com>> wrote …
We monitor the number of reads / writes of every table via the cassandra JMX 
metrics. (cassandra.db.read_count)
…
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We can only monitor in 1 hour moving window




Maybe the other two nodes are in a different rack that occasionally has net 
connectivity issues
Unlikely seems its AWS






From: Jack Krupansky 
[mailto:jack.krupan...@gmail.com<mailto:jack.krupan...@gmail.com>]
Sent: 03 December 2015 16:11

To: user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>
Subject: Re: cassandra reads are unbalanced

How many clients do you have performing reads?

Is your load balancer in front of your clients or between your clients and 
Cassandra?

Does Node1 of DC2 have the exact same configuration of hardware of the other 
nodes? Is it in the same rack? Maybe your load balancer thinks that node is 
more capable and handles requests faster so that it looks less loaded than the 
other two nodes.

You might also check the read counts after a very short interval of time to see 
if Node1 is uniformly getting more requests or just occasionally. Maybe the 
other two nodes are in a different rack that occasionally has net connectivity 
issues so that the requests get diverted by the client/load balancer to Node1 
during those times.


-- Jack Krupansky

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 4:58 AM, Walsh, Stephen 
<stephen.wa...@aspect.com<mailto:stephen.wa...@aspect.com>> wrote:
Thanks but keep in mind that both DC should be getting the same load, our 
production applications are behind a round robin load balancer – so each one 
our local application talk to its local Cassandra DataCenter.

It took about 4 hours but the nodetool cleanup eventually balanced all nodes

From: DuyHai Doan [mailto:doanduy...@gmail.com<mailto:doanduy...@gmail.com>]
Sent: 02 December 2015 16:27

To: user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>
Subject: Re: cassandra reads are unbalanced

If you're using the Java driver with LOCAL_ONE and the default load balancing 
strategy (TokenAware wrapped on DCAwareRoundRobin), the driver will always 
select the primary replica. To change this behavior and introduce some 
randomness so that non primary replicas get a chance to serve a read:

new TokenAwarePolicy(new DCAwareRoundRobinPolicy("local_DC"), true).

The second parameter (true) asks the TokenAware policy to "shuffle" replica on 
each request to avoid always returning the primary replica.

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Walsh, Stephen 
<stephen.wa...@aspect.com<mailto:stephen.wa...@aspect.com>> wrote:
Very good questions.

We have reads and writes at LOCAL_ONE.
There are 2 application (1 for each DC) who read and write at the same rate to 
their local DC
(All reads / writes started all perfectly even and degraded over time)

We use DCAwareRoundRobin policy

On update on the nodetool cleanup – it has help but hasn’t balanced all nodes. 
Node 1 on DC2 is still quite high

Node 1 (DC1)  =  1.35k    (seeder)
Node 2 (DC1)  =  1.54k
Node 3 (DC1)  =  1.45k

Node 1 (DC2)  =  2.06k   (seeder)
Node 2 (DC2)  =  1.38k
Node 3 (DC2)  =  1.43k


From: DuyHai Doan [mailto:doanduy...@gmail.com<mailto:doanduy...@gmail.com>]
Sent: 02 December 2015 14:22
To: user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>
Subject: Re: cassandra reads are unbalanced

Which Consistency level do you use for reads ? ONE ? Are you reading from only 
DC1 or from both DC ?
What is the LoadBalancingStrategy you have configured for your driver ? 
TokenAware wrapped on DCAwareRoundRobin ?





On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Walsh, Stephen 
<stephen.wa...@aspect.com<mailto:stephen.wa...@aspect.com>> wrote:
Hey all,

Thanks for taking the time to help.

So we have 6 cassandra nodes in 2 Data Centers.
Both Data Centers have a replication of 3 – so all nodes have all the data.

Over the last 2 days we’ve noticed that data reads / writes has shifted from 
balanced to unbalanced
(Nodetool status still shows 100% ownership on every node, with similar sizes)


For Example

We monitor the number of reads / writes of every table via the cassandra JMX 
metrics. (cassandra.db.read_count)
Over the last hour of this run

Reads
Node 1 (DC1)  =  1.79k    (seeder)
Node 2 (DC1)  =  1.92k
Node 3 (DC1)  =  1.97k

Node 1 (DC2)  =  2.90k   (seeder)
Node 2 (DC2)  =  1.76k
Node 3 (DC2)  =  1.19k

As you see on DC1, everything is pretty well balanced, but on DC2 the reads 
favour Node1 over Node 3.
I ran a nodetool repair yesterday – ran for 6 hours and when completed didn’t 
change the read balance.

Write levels are similar on  DC2, but not as bad a reads.

Anyone any suggestion on how to rebalance? I’m thinking maybe running a 
nodetool cleanup in case some of the keys have shifted?

Regards
Stephen Walsh


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