Re: Hinted handoff not working

2014-12-16 Thread Robert Wille
Nope. I added millions of records and several GB to the cluster while one node was down, and then ran "nodetool flush system hints" on a couple of nodes that were up, and system/hints has less than 200K in it. Here’s the relevant part of "nodetool cfstats system.hints": Keyspace: system

Re: Hinted handoff not working

2014-12-14 Thread Jens Rantil
Hi Robert , Maybe you need to flush your memtables to actually see the disk usage increase? This applies to both hosts. Cheers, Jens On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Robert Wille wrote: > I have a cluster with RF=3. If I shut down one node, add a bunch of data to > the cluster, I don’t see a

Re: Hinted handoff not working

2014-12-14 Thread Robert Wille
I’ve got "hinted_handoff_enabled: true" in cassandra.yaml. My settings are all default except for the DC, listen addresses and snitch. I should have mentioned this in my original post. On Dec 14, 2014, at 8:02 AM, Rahul Neelakantan wrote: > http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/c

Re: Hinted handoff not working

2014-12-14 Thread Rahul Neelakantan
http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/configuration/configCassandra_yaml_r.html?scroll=reference_ds_qfg_n1r_1k__hinted_handoff_enabled Rahul > On Dec 14, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Robert Wille wrote: > > I have a cluster with RF=3. If I shut down one node, add a bunch of data to

Hinted handoff not working

2014-12-14 Thread Robert Wille
I have a cluster with RF=3. If I shut down one node, add a bunch of data to the cluster, I don’t see a bunch of records added to system.hints. Also, du of /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/hints of the nodes that are up shows that hints aren’t being stored. When I start the down node, its data does