Hi, All,
We have a 12 nodes cluster with 2.1.9 version for near one month. Last week it have an exception . Cluster’s write and read latency will go up to 4 seconds from 0.4ms average after exception. I suspect OutboundTcpConnection is broken .I try to disablegossip then enablegossip to rescue OutboundTcpConnction ,but fail . I have to restart every node to restore cluster to normal . Cluster’s load is low. The client use datastax java driver 2.1.7.1 . CF with RF 3. Question: Which situation to trigger this AssertionError? I read OutboundTcpConnection.java source code, line 228 comments “writeConnected() is reasonably robust”. Thanks Attachment : ERROR [MessagingService-Outgoing-/172.20.114.13] 2015-11-08 10:36:28,763 CassandraDaemon.java:223 - Exception in thread Thread[MessagingService-Outgoing-/172.20.114.13,5,main] java.lang.AssertionError: 78251 at org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.writeWithShortLength(ByteBufferUti l.java:290) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.db.composites.AbstractCType$Serializer.serialize(Abstra ctCType.java:392) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.db.composites.AbstractCType$Serializer.serialize(Abstra ctCType.java:381) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.db.filter.ColumnSlice$Serializer.serialize(ColumnSlice. java:271) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.db.filter.ColumnSlice$Serializer.serialize(ColumnSlice. java:259) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.db.filter.SliceQueryFilter$Serializer.serialize(SliceQu eryFilter.java:503) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.db.filter.SliceQueryFilter$Serializer.serialize(SliceQu eryFilter.java:490) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.db.SliceFromReadCommandSerializer.serialize(SliceFromRe adCommand.java:168) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.db.ReadCommandSerializer.serialize(ReadCommand.java:143 ) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.db.ReadCommandSerializer.serialize(ReadCommand.java:132 ) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.net.MessageOut.serialize(MessageOut.java:121) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.net.OutboundTcpConnection.writeInternal(OutboundTcpConn ection.java:330) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.net.OutboundTcpConnection.writeConnected(OutboundTcpCon nection.java:282) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.net.OutboundTcpConnection.run(OutboundTcpConnection.jav a:218) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] ERROR [MessagingService-Outgoing-/172.20.114.19] 2015-11-08 10:36:28,763 CassandraDaemon.java:223 - Exception in thread Thread[MessagingService-Outgoing-/172.20.114.19,5,main] java.lang.AssertionError: 78251 at org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.writeWithShortLength(ByteBufferUti l.java:290) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.db.composites.AbstractCType$Serializer.serialize(Abstra ctCType.java:392) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.db.composites.AbstractCType$Serializer.serialize(Abstra ctCType.java:381) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.db.filter.ColumnSlice$Serializer.serialize(ColumnSlice. java:271) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.db.filter.ColumnSlice$Serializer.serialize(ColumnSlice. java:259) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.db.filter.SliceQueryFilter$Serializer.serialize(SliceQu eryFilter.java:503) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.db.filter.SliceQueryFilter$Serializer.serialize(SliceQu eryFilter.java:490) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.db.SliceFromReadCommandSerializer.serialize(SliceFromRe adCommand.java:168) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.db.ReadCommandSerializer.serialize(ReadCommand.java:143 ) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.db.ReadCommandSerializer.serialize(ReadCommand.java:132 ) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.net.MessageOut.serialize(MessageOut.java:121) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.net.OutboundTcpConnection.writeInternal(OutboundTcpConn ection.java:330) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.net.OutboundTcpConnection.writeConnected(OutboundTcpCon nection.java:282) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] at org.apache.cassandra.net.OutboundTcpConnection.run(OutboundTcpConnection.jav a:218) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9] INFO [NativePoolCleaner] 2015-11-08 10:36:47,414 ColumnFamilyStore.java:1231 - Flushing largest CFS(Keyspace='qinglong', ColumnFamily='package_state') to free up room. Used total: 0.04/0.14, live: 0.04/0.14, flushing: 0.00/0.00, this: 0.02/0.02 Best Regards