> What can be the reason for the handoff process not to finish?
Check for other errors about timing out during hint reply.
> What would be the best way to recover from this situation?
If they are really causing trouble drop the hints via HintedHandoffManager JMX
MBean or stopping the node and de
Hi,
One one of my nodes, the (storage) load increased dramatically (doubled),
within one or two hours. The hints column family was causing the growth. I
noticed one HintedHandoff process that was started some two hours ago, but
hadn't finished. Normally, these processes take only a few seconds, 15
