That was the problem. Try now to shutdown all the nodes "softly". At the next startup no index should be rebuilt.
Lvc@ On 12 August 2014 15:31, Shaun Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > But the DB is 'new' to each server - plus I had to kill them before since > the shutdown fails if node is still in 'STARTING' state > > > On Monday, August 11, 2014 5:35:22 PM UTC+1, Shaun Barker wrote: > >> Hi >> >> We are running orientdb-community-1.7.5. We have an initial db (generated >> from some data extraction in a dev sandbox) that needs to be loaded into >> our orientdb node cluster of 4 nodes set up in distributed set up. We are >> running out of box in distributed mode with the only change being that the >> nodes have tweaked hazelcast to turn off broadcast and discover only >> specified nodes by ip address. >> >> Due to IP connectivity issues we established the easiest way was to add >> the initial 'seed-database' to one node from the cluster (stop server, copy >> to database folder, start server) and let it re-distribute the database to >> the other nodes. >> >> The seed database is 3Gb in size. >> >> What actually happens is the node that has the data does not start at all >> - it gets stuck in a 'STARTING' state. The other nodes in the cluster (when >> they are all re-started) also do not start. >> >> In order to investigate I tried out some other angles. I established that >> if one node was taken out of the cluster, and re-started in non distributed >> mode it would eventually start and would re-index the database resulting in >> about an hours worth of wait. If this node was then re-introduced to the >> cluster the cluster fails again. If I repeated the steps on each node (take >> out of cluster, run standalone, copy db in, restart) then each node will >> re-index the data. However upon bringing all nodes back to the cluster each >> with the exact same copy of the database indexed then the cluster will not >> run properly again. If I make no other changes that to remove the db >> sufolder then all works again. >> >> So my question is this: what is the correct and supported way to 'seed a >> database' into a cluster. Are there any size limitations? Indeed is there >> some config tweak needed? >> >> thanks >> >> Shaun >> >> >> >> >> >> -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OrientDB" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OrientDB" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
