Re: Recommended Approach for Config Changes

2014-04-28 Thread Phil Burress
Thanks for all the good info. We have found that running drain first before restarting should always be done, even if there is not much data or I/O. Also, we've found that node tool drain returns often before it's finished, so it's important to watch the logs (or opscenter) for it and any compact

Re: Recommended Approach for Config Changes

2014-04-25 Thread Jon Haddad
You might want to take a peek at what’s happening in the process via strace -p or tcpdump. I can’t remember ever waiting an hour for a node to rejoin. On Apr 25, 2014, at 8:59 AM, Tyler Hobbs wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Phil Burress > wrote: > Thanks. I made a change to a

Re: Recommended Approach for Config Changes

2014-04-25 Thread Tyler Hobbs
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Phil Burress wrote: > Thanks. I made a change to a single node and it took almost an hour to > rejoin the cluster (go from DN to UP in nodetool status). The cluster is > pretty much idle right now and has a very small dataset. Is that normal? Not unless it had t

Re: Recommended Approach for Config Changes

2014-04-25 Thread Phil Burress
Thanks. I made a change to a single node and it took almost an hour to rejoin the cluster (go from DN to UP in nodetool status). The cluster is pretty much idle right now and has a very small dataset. Is that normal? On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Chris Lohfink wrote: > Yes. > > Some changes

Re: Recommended Approach for Config Changes

2014-04-25 Thread Chris Lohfink
Yes. Some changes you can manually have take affect without a restart (ie compactionthroughput, things settable from jmx). There is also config changes you cant really make like switching the snitch and such without a big todo. --- Chris On Apr 25, 2014, at 8:53 AM, Phil Burress wrote: > If

Recommended Approach for Config Changes

2014-04-25 Thread Phil Burress
If I wanted to make a configuration change to a single node in a cluster, what is the recommended approach for doing that? Is it ok to just stop that instance, make the change and then restart it?