Thanks Alain for quick and detailed response. My answers inline. One thing I want to clarify is, the nodes got recycled due to some automatic health check failure. This means old nodes are dead and new nodes got added w/o our intervention. So replacing nodes would not work for us since the new nodes were already added.
We are not removing multiple nodes at the same time. All dead nodes are from same AZ so there were no errors when the nodes were down as expected (because we use QUORUM) Do you use at leat 3 distinct AZ ? If so, you should indeed be fine regarding data integrity. Also repair should then work for you. If you have less than 3 AZ, then you are in troubles... Yes we use 3 distinct AZs and replicate to all 3 Azs which is why when 8 nodes were recycled, there were absolutely no outage on Cassandra (other two nodes wtill satisfy quorum consistency) About the unreachable errors, I believe it can be due to the overload due to the missing nodes. Pressure on the remaining node might be too strong. It is certainly possible but we have beefed up cluster with <3% CPU, hardly any network I/o and disk usage. We have 162 nodes in the cluster and each node doesn’t have more than 80 to 100MB of data. However, As soon as I started removing nodes one by one, every time time we see lot of timeout and unavailable exceptions which doesn’t make any sense because I am just removing a node that doesn’t even exist. This probably added even more load, if you are using vnodes, all the remaining nodes probably started streaming data to each other node at the speed of "nodetool getstreamthroughput". AWS network isn't that good, and is probably saturated. Also have you the phi_convict_threshold configured to a high value at least 10 or 12 ? This would avoid nodes to be marked down that often. We are using c3.2xlarge which has good network throughput (1GB/sec I think). We are using default value which is 200MB/sec in 2.0.9. We will play with it in future and see if this could make any difference but as I mentioned the data size on each node is not huge. Regarding phi_convict_threshold, our Cassandra is not bringing itself down. There was a bug in health check from one of our internal tool and that tool is recycling the nodes. Nothing to do with Cassandra health. Again we will keep an eye on it in future. What does "nodetool tpstats" outputs ? Nodetool tpstats on which node? Any node? Also you might try to monitor resources and see what happens (my guess is you should focus at iowait, disk usage and network, have an eye at cpu too). We did monitor cpu, disk and network and they are all very low. A quick fix would probably be to hardly throttle the network on all the nodes and see if it helps: nodetool setstreamthroughput 2 We will play with this config. 2.0.9 defaults to 200MB/sec which I think is too high. If this work, you could incrementally increase it and monitor, find the good tuning and put it the cassandra.yaml. I opened a ticket a while ago about that issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9509 I voted for this issue. Lets see if it gets picked up :). I hope this will help you to go back to a healthy state allowing you a fast upgrade ;-). C*heers, ----------------------- Alain Rodriguez - al...@thelastpickle.com<mailto:al...@thelastpickle.com> France The Last Pickle - Apache Cassandra Consulting http://www.thelastpickle.com 2016-03-02 22:17 GMT+01:00 Peddi, Praveen <pe...@amazon.com<mailto:pe...@amazon.com>>: Hi Robert, Thanks for your response. Replication factor is 3. We are in the process of upgrading to 2.2.4. We have had too many performance issues with later versions of Cassandra (I have asked asked for help related to that in the forum). We are close to getting to similar performance now and hopefully upgrade in next few weeks. Lot of testing to do :(. We are not removing multiple nodes at the same time. All dead nodes are from same AZ so there were no errors when the nodes were down as expected (because we use QUORUM). However, As soon as I started removing nodes one by one, every time time we see lot of timeout and unavailable exceptions which doesn’t make any sense because I am just removing a node that doesn’t even exist. From: Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com<mailto:rc...@eventbrite.com>> Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 2:52 PM To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Subject: Re: Removing Node causes bunch of HostUnavailableException On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Peddi, Praveen <pe...@amazon.com<mailto:pe...@amazon.com>> wrote: We have few dead nodes in the cluster (Amazon ASG removed those thinking there is an issue with health). Now we are trying to remove those dead nodes from the cluster so that other nodes can take over. As soon as I execute nodetool removenode <ID>, we see lots of HostUnavailableExceptions both on reads and writes. What I am not able to understand is, these are deadnodes and don’t even physically exists. Why would removenode command cause any outage of nodes in Cassandra when we had no errors whatsoever before removing them. I could not really find a jira ticket for this. What is your replication factor? Also, 2.0.9 is meaningfully old at this point, consider upgrading ASAP. Also, removing multiple nodes with removenode means your consistency is pretty hosed. Repair ASAP, but there are potential cases where repair won't help. =Rob =Rob
