No, I am not

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Jeff Jirsa <jji...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you using internode ssl?
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> Jeff Jirsa
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> On Feb 7, 2018, at 8:24 AM, Mike Torra <mto...@salesforce.com> wrote:
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> Thanks for the feedback guys. That example data model was indeed
> abbreviated - the real queries have the partition key in them. I am using
> RF 3 on the keyspace, so I don't think a node being down would mean the key
> I'm looking for would be unavailable. The load balancing policy of the
> driver seems correct (https://docs.datastax.com/en/
> developer/nodejs-driver/3.4/features/tuning-policies/#
> load-balancing-policy, and I am using the default `TokenAware` policy
> with `DCAwareRoundRobinPolicy` as a child), but I will look more closely at
> the implementation.
>
> It was an oversight of mine to not include `nodetool disablebinary`, but I
> still experience the same issue with that.
>
> One other thing I've noticed is that after restarting a node and seeing
> application latency, I also see that the node I just restarted sees many
> other nodes in the same DC as being down (ie status 'DN'). However,
> checking `nodetool status` on those other nodes shows all nodes as
> up/normal. To me this could kind of explain the problem - node comes back
> online, thinks it is healthy but many others are not, so it gets traffic
> from the client application. But then it gets requests for ranges that
> belong to a node it thinks is down, so it responds with an error. The
> latency issue seems to start roughly when the node goes down, but persists
> long (ie 15-20 mins) after it is back online and accepting connections. It
> seems to go away once the bounced node shows the other nodes in the same DC
> as up again.
>
> As for speculative retry, my CF is using the default of '99th percentile'.
> I could try something different there, but nodes being seen as down seems
> like an issue.
>
> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 6:26 PM, Jeff Jirsa <jji...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Unless you abbreviated, your data model is questionable (SELECT without
>> any equality in the WHERE clause on the partition key will always cause a
>> range scan, which is super inefficient). Since you're doing LOCAL_ONE and a
>> range scan, timeouts sorta make sense - the owner of at least one range
>> would be down for a bit.
>>
>> If you actually have a partition key in your where clause, then the next
>> most likely guess is your clients aren't smart enough to route around the
>> node as it restarts, or your key cache is getting cold during the bounce.
>> Double check your driver's load balancing policy.
>>
>> It's also likely the case that speculative retry may help other nodes
>> route around the bouncing instance better - if you're not using it, you
>> probably should be (though with CL: LOCAL_ONE, it seems like it'd be less
>> of an issue).
>>
>> We need to make bouncing nodes easier (or rather, we need to make drain
>> do the right thing), but in this case, your data model looks like the
>> biggest culprit (unless it's an incomplete recreation).
>>
>> - Jeff
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 10:58 AM, Mike Torra <mto...@salesforce.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi -
>>>
>>> I am running a 29 node cluster spread over 4 DC's in EC2, using C*
>>> 3.11.1 on Ubuntu. Occasionally I have the need to restart nodes in the
>>> cluster, but every time I do, I see errors and application (nodejs)
>>> timeouts.
>>>
>>> I restart a node like this:
>>>
>>> nodetool disablethrift && nodetool disablegossip && nodetool drain
>>> sudo service cassandra restart
>>>
>>> When I do that, I very often get timeouts and errors like this in my
>>> nodejs app:
>>>
>>> Error: Cannot achieve consistency level LOCAL_ONE
>>>
>>> My queries are all pretty much the same, things like: "select * from
>>> history where ts > {current_time}"
>>>
>>> The errors and timeouts seem to go away on their own after a while, but
>>> it is frustrating because I can't track down what I am doing wrong!
>>>
>>> I've tried waiting between steps of shutting down cassandra, and I've
>>> tried stopping, waiting, then starting the node. One thing I've noticed is
>>> that even after `nodetool drain`ing the node, there are open connections to
>>> other nodes in the cluster (ie looking at the output of netstat) until I
>>> stop cassandra. I don't see any errors or warnings in the logs.
>>>
>>> What can I do to prevent this? Is there something else I should be doing
>>> to gracefully restart the cluster? It could be something to do with the
>>> nodejs driver, but I can't find anything there to try.
>>>
>>> I appreciate any suggestions or advice.
>>>
>>> - Mike
>>>
>>
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