Can you produce a thread dump on the machine? kill -3 ought to do it.
JConsole can be your friend at a time like this too. It might be
painstaking, but you can check the CPU time used by each thread using
the java.lang.Threading mbean. There's an interesting jconsole plugin
that is supposed to
I am currently running a 4 node cluster on Cassandra beta 2. Yesterday, I
ran into a number of problems and the one of my nodes went down for a few
hours. I tried to run a nodetool repair and at least at a data level,
everything seems to be consistent and alright. The problem is that the node
is st