The problem was one of my nodes was in some kind of bad Hinted-Handoff loop. I looked at CASSANDRA-4740 which discusses this but to no solution that I could see.
When I killed the server trying to do the hinted-handoffs the other nodes stopped complaining...as soon as I restarted the node all the other nodes went right back into the "dropping messages" state. Help please. Brian On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Brian Tarbox <tar...@cabotresearch.com>wrote: > I'm getting "messages dropped" messages in my cluster even when (like > right now) there are no clients running against the cluster. > > 1) who could be generating the traffic if there are no clients? > 2) is there a way to list active clients...on the off chance that there is > a client I don't know about? > 3) why is "messages dropped" an INFO rather than a WARNING? > > I'm running 1.2.13 on a six node AWS cluster on m2-2xlarge servers. > > Any help is appreciated. > > Brian >
