Invalid Gossip generation with Cassandra 2.1.12

2017-09-05 Thread Chuck Reynolds
Calling all super heros. I have a long standing Cassandra 2.1.12 ring that has an occasional node that gets restarted and then is flagged with the invalid gossip generation error leaving him down in nodetool status but the logs make it look like the nodes is ok. It’s only when I look at the

Re: Test repair command

2017-09-05 Thread Alain RODRIGUEZ
Hi, To check that repairs are running, you should be able to see VALIDATION compactions (using 'nodetool compactionstats -H'). You could also see some streaming if you had some entropy (using 'nodetool netstats -H | grep -v 100%') during the repair. To know roughly the state of your data, you

Re: From SimpleStrategy to DCs approach

2017-09-05 Thread kurt greaves
data will be distributed amongst racks correctly, however only if you are using a snitch that understands racks and also NetworkTopologyStrategy. SimpleStrategy doesn't understand racks or DCs. You should use a snitch that understands racks and then transition to a 2 rack cluster, keeping only 1

From SimpleStrategy to DCs approach

2017-09-05 Thread Cogumelos Maravilha
Hi list, CREATE KEYSPACE test WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor': '2'} AND durable_writes = true; I'm using C* 3.11.0 with 8 nodes at aws, 4 nodes at zone a and the other 4 nodes at zone b. The idea is to keep the cluster alive if zone a or b goes dark and keep