to update, i seem to be having luck with some combination of "cleanup"
followed by triggering a garbage collection on jmx (all on each node).
(using jxterm):
echo -e 'open localhost:8080\nrun -b java.lang:type=Memory gc' | java -jar
jmxterm-1.0-alpha-4-uber.jar
-scott
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Sc
i followed the alternative approach for handling a failed node here:
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations
i.e. bringing up a replacement node with the same ip, bootstrapping it
into the same token used by the failed node (using the InitialToken config
parameter), then doing a repair. a