Re: Stress tests failed with secondary index

2011-04-07 Thread aaron morton
Can you turn the logging up to DEBUG level and look for a message from CassandraServer that says ... timed out ? Also check the thread pool stats nodetool tpstats to see if the node is keeping up. Aaron On 7 Apr 2011, at 13:43, Sheng Chen wrote: Thank you Aaron. It does not seem to be

Re: Stress tests failed with secondary index

2011-04-06 Thread aaron morton
TimedOutException means that the less than CL number of nodes responded to the coordinator before the rpc_timeout. So it was overloaded. Which makes sense when you say it only happens with secondary indexes. Consider things like - reducing the throughput - reducing the number of clients -

Re: Stress tests failed with secondary index

2011-04-06 Thread Sheng Chen
Thank you Aaron. It does not seem to be an overload problem. I have 16 cores and 48G ram on the single node, and I reduced the concurrent threads to be 1. Still, it just suddenly dies of a timeout, while the cpu, ram, disk load are below 10% and write latency is about 0.5ms for the past 10