Hi Cassandra version: 2.1.11
The existed cluster has three nodes: [root@report-02 cassandra]# bin/nodetool status UN 192.21.0.135 120.85 GB 512 ? 11e1e80f-9c5f-4f7c-81f2-42d3b704d8e3 RAC1 UN 192.21.0.133 129.13 GB 512 ? 3e662ccb-fa2b-427b-9ca1-c2d3468bfbc9 RAC1 UN 192.21.0.131 149.05 GB 512 ? 60f763f3-09bc-4d6f-9301-494c93857fc1 RAC1 I wanted to add two nodes and set the same configs as the cluster's nodes. node1: 192.21.0.184 node2: 192.21.0.185 After starting the two nodes one by one, the first node 192.21.0.184 finished the joining immediately, but the second one 192.21.0.185 took more than 24 hours to join and not finished now: Under 192.168.0.184: [root@report-01 cassandra]# bin/nodetool compactionstats pending tasks: 0 Under 192.168.0.185: [root@report-02 cassandra]# bin/nodetool compactionstats pending tasks: 21 compaction type keyspace table completed total unit progress Compaction testforuser users1027 6204396079 14923537640 bytes 41.57% Compaction user_center users 19325435997 514143044706 bytes 3.76% Compaction user_center users 12305639479 118703090319 bytes 10.37% Active compaction remaining time : 10h05m54s And: [root@report-02 cassandra]# bin/nodetool status Datacenter: DC1 =============== Status=Up/Down |/ State=Normal/Leaving/Joining/Moving -- Address Load Tokens Owns Host ID Rack UN 192.21.0.135 120.85 GB 512 ? 11e1e80f-9c5f-4f7c-81f2-42d3b704d8e3 RAC1 UN 192.21.0.133 129.13 GB 512 ? 3e662ccb-fa2b-427b-9ca1-c2d3468bfbc9 RAC1 UN 192.21.0.131 149.05 GB 512 ? 60f763f3-09bc-4d6f-9301-494c93857fc1 RAC1 UJ 192.21.0.185 299.22 GB 256 ? 84c0dd16-6491-4bfb-b288-d4e410cd8c2a RAC1 UN 192.21.0.184 670.14 MB 256 ? 4041c232-c110-4315-89a1-23ca53b851c2 RAC1 >From the above load data size, obviously, node2(192.21.0.185)'s 299.22G is not normal. And the node2's boostrap interrupted several times because it got a error: INFO 00:57:42 [Stream #8eb8cbe0-c488-11e5-baf9-918c8558de90] Session with /192.21.0.135 is complete INFO 00:57:42 [Stream #8eb8cbe0-c488-11e5-baf9-918c8558de90] Session with /192.21.0.131 is complete WARN 00:57:42 [Stream #8eb8cbe0-c488-11e5-baf9-918c8558de90] Stream failed ERROR 00:57:42 Exception encountered during startup java.lang.RuntimeException: Error during boostrap: Stream failed So I restarted it and the join continued! I don't know why there is the difference between the two nodes? I should stop it, and change something? Thank you in advance! Dillon