Re: Uncaught exception on thread CounterMutationStage

2017-07-27 Thread David Salz
Hi Jeff, thanks for the pointers! We upgraded to C* 3.11.0 now and the situation has improved a little bit, the node does not die completely any more, but the WriteTimeoutExceptions persists and still 'freeze' the node for a couple of minutes. > A single node with 20 cores and 256GB of RAM is

Uncaught exception on thread CounterMutationStage

2017-07-25 Thread David Salz
Hi, has anyone seen the following exception before? Context: * Cassandra 3.9, * single node (20 Cores / 256 GB RAM) * doing lots of counter mutations * Whenever this exception happens, CPU spikes, node becomes unresponsive for a few minutes. Eventually, the node will "die", i.e. become