On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Chuck Reynolds <creyno...@ancestry.com> wrote:
> So I tried to run a repair with the following on one of the server. > > nodetool repair system_auth -pr –local > > > > After two hours it hadn’t finished. I had to kill the repair because of > another issue and haven’t tried again. > > > > *Why would such a small table take so long to repair?* > It could be the overhead of that many nodes having to communicate with each other (times the number of vnodes). Even on a small clusters (3-5 nodes) I think it takes a few minutes to run a repair on a small/empty keyspace. *Also what would happen if I set the RF back to a lower number like 5?* > You should still run a repair afterwards, but I would expect it to finish in a reasonable time. -- Alex
