Re: unbalanced token assignment with random partioner

2010-05-20 Thread Jonathan Ellis
Yes, if you add nodes when the existing one doesn't have enough data to guess a good token from the keys it has, it uses a random token. Created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1112 to use midpoint instead. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Chris Shorrock wrote: > I have a feeling

unbalanced token assignment with random partioner

2010-05-17 Thread Chris Shorrock
I have a feeling this issue may be more misunderstanding than anything else, but after searching for an explanation in the wiki and elsewhere my understanding of token assignments leads me to believe that unbalancing is bound to occur. Given a relatively simple example if we take a 2 node cassandr