nodetool repair just triggers repair procedure. You can kill nodetool after start, it doesn't change anything. To stop repair you have to use nodetool stop VALIDATION|COMPACTION
Thank you, Andrey On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Andy Losey <and...@addthis.com> wrote: > Afternoon, > > We are noticing nodetool repair processes are not completing after a weeks > worth of time, and have resulted in some Cassandra nodes having more than > one process running do to cron scheduled. We are also chasing some > performance degradation after upgrading all nodes to version 1.2.8 last > Friday and would like to resolve this multiple repairs running at once > issue in an effort to troubleshoot our performance issues. > > We'd like to know more about what is happening with the repair option. Is > there a way to gracefully terminate them or any adverse affect to killing > the processes we should look out for? > > Thanks, > -- > Andy L > >
