Hi Brian, I just tested this on a CCM cluster and the node started without problem. It flushed some new SSTables a short while after.
I honestly do not know the specifics of how size_estimates is used, but if it prevented a node from restarting I'd definitely remove the sstables to get it back up. Cheers, On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 1:53 PM Brian Spindler <brian.spind...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, I've got a 2.1.15 node that will not start it seems. Hangs on > Opening system.size_estimates. Sometimes it can take a while but I've let > it run for 90m and nothing. Should I move this sstable out of the way to > let it start? will it rebuild/refresh size estimates if I remove that > folder? > > thanks > -B > -- ----------------- Alexander Dejanovski France @alexanderdeja Consultant Apache Cassandra Consulting http://www.thelastpickle.com