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Jaakko Laine commented on CASSANDRA-644:
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Committed to trunk. Let's wait a while and commit to 0.5 if nothing breaks.
> Provide way to remove nodes from gossip entirely
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> Key: CASSANDRA-644
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-644
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Tools
> Affects Versions: 0.5
> Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
> Assignee: Jaakko Laine
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 0.6
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> Attachments: 644.patch
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> As reported in CASSANDRA-634, "Now that we're gossiping about dead nodes as
> well, gossip digest continues to grow without boundary when nodes come and
> go. This information will never disappear as it will be propagated to new
> nodes no matter how old and obsolete it is. To counter this, we need some
> mechanism to (1) either remove dead node from endpointstateinfo or (2) at
> some point stop to gossip about it, or both."
> This is also seen when using "fat clients" that participate in the gossip
> ring; if a client leaves and does not come back it stays in the gossip
> forever. (This can be confusing if the client does start up again,
> connecting to a _different_ cluster, but the old one notices it is back and
> starts gossiping to it again!)
> I would prefer to leave management of these things explicit; 3 days is long
> enough that the fat client problem in particular needs another solution, and
> if it needs another solution then that can become the only solution. :)
> So I would be in favor of removeToken clearing out gossip entries, and also
> adding a command to remove an endpoint from the gossip ring that does not
> have a token associated with it (like fat clients). A command to ask "what
> are all the known gossip hosts" would also be useful, since nodeprobe ring
> only includes nodes w/ tokens.
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