Thanks for the hint and tool !

By the way, what does the --shards parameter means ?

Thanks

Loic

On 07/10/2017 05:20 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> 32 tokens is too few for 33 nodes. I have a sharding simulator [1] and
> it shows
> 
> 
> $ ./shardsim --vnodes 32 --nodes 33 --shards 1
> 33 nodes, 32 vnodes, 1 shards
> maximum node overcommit:  1.42642
> maximum shard overcommit: 1.426417
> 
> 
> So 40% overcommit over the average. Since some nodes can be
> undercommitted, this easily explains the 2X difference (40% overcommit +
> 30% undercommit = 2X).
> 
> 
> Newer versions of Cassandra have better token selection and will suffer
> less from this.
> 
> 
> 
> [1] https://github.com/avikivity/shardsim
> 
> 
> On 07/10/2017 04:02 PM, Loic Lambiel wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> One of our clusters is becoming somehow unbalanced, at least some of the
>> nodes:
>>
>> (output edited to remove unnecessary information)
>> --  Address         Load       Tokens  Owns (effective)   Rack
>> UN  192.168.1.22   2.99 TB    32      10.6%               RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.23   3.35 TB    32      11.7%               RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.20   3.22 TB    32      11.3%               RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.21   3.21 TB    32      11.2%               RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.18   2.87 TB    32      10.3%               RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.19   3.49 TB    32      12.0%               RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.16   5.32 TB    32      12.9%               RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.17   3.77 TB    32      12.0%               RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.26   4.46 TB    32      11.2%               RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.24   3.24 TB    32      11.4%               RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.25   3.31 TB    32      11.2%               RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.134  2.75 TB    18      7.2%                RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.135  2.52 TB    18      6.0%                RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.132  1.85 TB    18      6.8%                RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.133  2.41 TB    18      5.7%                RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.130  2.95 TB    18      7.1%                RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.131  2.82 TB    18      6.7%                RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.128  3.04 TB    18      7.1%                RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.129  2.47 TB    18      7.2%                RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.14   5.63 TB    32      13.4%               RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.15   2.95 TB    32      10.4%               RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.12   3.83 TB    32      12.4%               RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.13   2.71 TB    32      9.5%                RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.10   3.51 TB    32      11.9%               RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.11   2.96 TB    32      10.3%               RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.126  2.48 TB    18      6.7%                RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.127  2.23 TB    18      5.5%                RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.124  2.05 TB    18      5.5%                RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.125  2.33 TB    18      5.8%                RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.122  1.99 TB    18      5.1%                RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.123  2.44 TB    18      5.7%                RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.120  3.58 TB    28      11.4%               RACK1
>> UN  192.168.1.121  2.33 TB    18      6.8%                RACK1
>>
>> Notice the node 192.168.1.14 owns 13.4%  / 5.63TB while node
>> 192.168.1.13 owns only 9.5% / 2.71TB, which is almost twice the load.
>> They both have 32 tokens.
>>
>> The cluster is running:
>>
>> * Cassandra 2.1.16 (initially bootstrapped running 2.1.2, with vnodes
>> enabled)
>> * RF=3 with single DC and single rack. LCS as the compaction strategy,
>> JBOD storage
>> * Partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.Murmur3Partitioner
>> * Node cleanup performed on all nodes
>>
>> Almost all of the cluster load comes from a single CF:
>>
>> CREATE TABLE blobstore.block (
>>      inode uuid,
>>      version timeuuid,
>>      block bigint,
>>      offset bigint,
>>      chunksize int,
>>      payload blob,
>>      PRIMARY KEY ((inode, version, block), offset)
>> ) WITH CLUSTERING ORDER BY (offset ASC)
>>      AND bloom_filter_fp_chance = 0.01
>>      AND caching = '{"keys":"ALL", "rows_per_partition":"NONE"}'
>>      AND comment = ''
>>      AND compaction = {'tombstone_threshold': '0.1',
>> 'tombstone_compaction_interval': '60', 'unchecked_tombstone_compaction':
>> 'false', 'class':
>> 'org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.LeveledCompactionStrategy'}
>>      AND compression = {'sstable_compression':
>> 'org.apache.cassandra.io.compress.LZ4Compressor'}
>>      AND dclocal_read_repair_chance = 0.1
>>      AND default_time_to_live = 0
>>      AND gc_grace_seconds = 172000
>>      AND max_index_interval = 2048
>>      AND memtable_flush_period_in_ms = 0
>>      AND min_index_interval = 128
>>      AND read_repair_chance = 0.0
>>      AND speculative_retry = '99.0PERCENTILE';
>>
>> The payload column is almost the same size in each record.
>>
>> I understand that an unbalanced cluster may be the result of a bad
>> Primary key, which I believe isn't the case here.
>>
>> Any clue on what could be the cause ? How can I re-balance it without
>> any decommission ?
>>
>> My understanding is that nodetool move may only be used when not using
>> the vnodes feature.
>>
>> Any help appreciated, thanks !
>>
>> ----
>> Loic Lambiel
>>
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