Re: Non-zero nodes are marked as down after restarting cassandra process

Hi Andrew, We were having problems with gossip TCP connections being held open and changed our SOP for stopping cassandra to being: nodetool disablegossip nodetool drain service cassandra stop This seemed to close down the gossip cleanly (the nodetool drain is advised as well) and meant that

Re: Cassandra Upgrade

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Re: Is it a must to run Cassandra repair in scheduled time

Hi Simon, See http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/repair-in-cassandra for a good explanation. Basically repair is not a good word because it suggests it is fixing something that is broken. This is not the case. It ensures the consistency across your cluster. Not running repairs is a VERY BAD