One node at a time On Feb 21, 2018 10:23 AM, "Carl Mueller" <carl.muel...@smartthings.com> wrote:
> What is your replication factor? > Single datacenter, three availability zones, is that right? > You removed one node at a time or three at once? > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 10:20 AM, Fd Habash <fmhab...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> We have had a 15 node cluster across three zones and cluster repairs >> using ‘nodetool repair -pr’ took about 3 hours to finish. Lately, we shrunk >> the cluster to 12. Since then, same repair job has taken up to 12 hours to >> finish and most times, it never does. >> >> >> >> More importantly, at some point during the repair cycle, we see read >> latencies jumping to 1-2 seconds and applications immediately notice the >> impact. >> >> >> >> stream_throughput_outbound_megabits_per_sec is set at 200 and >> compaction_throughput_mb_per_sec at 64. The /data dir on the nodes is >> around ~500GB at 44% usage. >> >> >> >> When shrinking the cluster, the ‘nodetool decommision’ was eventless. It >> completed successfully with no issues. >> >> >> >> What could possibly cause repairs to cause this impact following cluster >> downsizing? Taking three nodes out does not seem compatible with such a >> drastic effect on repair and read latency. >> >> >> >> Any expert insights will be appreciated. >> >> ---------------- >> Thank you >> >> >> > >