Oh, the table in question is SizeTiered, had about 10 sstables total, it was JBOD across two data directories.
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 12:26 PM Carl Mueller <carl.muel...@smartthings.com> wrote: > We are doing a ton of upgrades to get out of 2.1.x. We've done probably > 20-30 clusters so far and have not encountered anything like this yet. > > After upgrade of a node, the restart takes a long time. like 10 minutes > long. ALmost all of our other nodes took less than 2 minutes to upgrade > (aside from sstableupgrades). > > The startup stalls on a particular table, it is the largest table at about > 300GB, but we have upgraded other clusters with about that much data > without this 8-10 minute delay. We have the ability to roll back the node, > and the restart as a 2.1.x node is normal with no delays. > > Alas this is a prod cluster so we are going to try to sstable load the > data on a lower environment and try to replicate the delay. If we can, we > will turn on debug logging. > > This occurred on the first node we tried to upgrade. It is possible it is > limited to only this node, but we are gunshy to play around with upgrades > in prod. > > We have an automated upgrading program that flushes, snapshots, shuts down > gossip, drains before upgrade, suppressed autostart on upgrade, and has > worked about as flawlessly as one could hope for so far for 2.1->2.2 and > 2.2-> 3.11 upgrades. > > INFO [main] 2019-04-16 17:22:17,004 ColumnFamilyStore.java:389 - > Initializing zzzz.access_token > INFO [main] 2019-04-16 17:22:17,096 ColumnFamilyStore.java:389 - > Initializing zzzz.refresh_token > INFO [main] 2019-04-16 17:28:52,929 ColumnFamilyStore.java:389 - > Initializing zzzz.userid > INFO [main] 2019-04-16 17:28:52,930 ColumnFamilyStore.java:389 - > Initializing zzzz.access_token_by_auth > > You can see the 6:30 delay in the startup log above. All the other > keyspace/tables initialize in under a second. > > >