Re: Question on load balancing in a cluster

2010-08-09 Thread anand_s
Cool thanks, I think I will experiment with nodetool move. Can somebody confirm on the reason for decommissioning, instead of just splitting the token on the fly? Yes it does seem simpler to just decommission and bootstrap, but that does mean a lot of data has to be moved around to get a reasonab

Re: Question on load balancing in a cluster

2010-08-06 Thread Benjamin Black
Yes, imo, it should be renamed. On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Bill Au wrote: > If nodetool loadbalance does not do what it's name implies, should it be > renamed or maybe even remove altogether since the recommendation is to > _never_ use it in production? > > Bill > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 6

Re: Question on load balancing in a cluster

2010-08-06 Thread Bill Au
If nodetool loadbalance does not do what it's name implies, should it be renamed or maybe even remove altogether since the recommendation is to _never_ use it in production? Bill On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 6:41 AM, aaron morton wrote: > This comment from Ben Black may help... > > "I recommend you _n

Re: Question on load balancing in a cluster

2010-08-05 Thread aaron morton
This comment from Ben Black may help... "I recommend you _never_ use nodetool loadbalance in production because it will _not_ result in balanced load. The correct process is manual calculation of tokens (the algorithm for RP is on the Operations wiki page) and nodetool move. " http://www.mail-arc