Taking the cluster down completely did remove the phantom node. The hintscolumnfamily is causing a lot of commit logs to back up and threaten the commit log drive to run out of space. A manual flush of that column family always clears out the files though.
-----Original Message----- From: Brandon Williams [mailto:dri...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 10:42 AM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Completely removing a node from the cluster On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:26 AM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote: > I'm running low on ideas for this one. Anyone else ? > > If the phantom node is not listed in the ring, other nodes should not be > storing hints for it. You can see what nodes they are storing hints for via > JConsole. I think I found it in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3071 --Brandon
