Hi all We keep having a problem with hint files on one of our Cassandra nodes (v 3.11.6 ), there keeps being the following error messages repeated for same file.
INFO [HintsDispatcher:25] 2021-11-02 08:55:29,830 HintsDispatchExecutor.java:289 - Finished hinted handoff of file 72a18469-b7d2-499a-aed3-fd4e2cda9678-1635838529279-1.hints to endpoint /10.29.49.210: 72a18469-b7d2-499a-aed3-fd4e2cda9678, partially INFO [HintsDispatcher:24] 2021-11-02 08:55:39,812 HintsDispatchExecutor.java:289 - Finished hinted handoff of file 72a18469-b7d2-499a-aed3-fd4e2cda9678-1635838529279-1.hints to endpoint /10.29.49.210: 72a18469-b7d2-499a-aed3-fd4e2cda9678, partially INFO [HintsDispatcher:25] 2021-11-02 08:55:49,822 HintsDispatchExecutor.java:289 - Finished hinted handoff of file 72a18469-b7d2-499a-aed3-fd4e2cda9678-1635838529279-1.hints to endpoint /10.29.49.210: 72a18469-b7d2-499a-aed3-fd4e2cda9678, partially On the receiving node ( cassandra0 ) we see the CPU shoot up, this is how notice we have a problem. This has happened serval times with different files, and we find the only way to stop this is to delete the offending hint files. The cluster can be a bit overloaded, and this is what is causing the hint files to be generated in the first place, we are working to get that stopped, However the question I don’t know the answer to is what causing this “partially” hint processing and how can we stop it happening? Thanks Paul
