Thanks for the info Brandon. I'll do the upgrade once 0.8.8 is released. On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Brandon Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Giannis Neokleous > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > We're using the bulk loader to load data every day to Cassandra. The > > machines that use the bulkloader are diferent every day so their IP > > addresses change. When I do "describe cluster" i see all the unreachable > > nodes that keep piling up for the past few days. Is there a way to remove > > those IP addresses without terminating the whole cluster at the same time > > and restarting it? > > > > The unreachable nodes cause issues when we want to make schema changes to > > all the nodes or when we want to truncate a CF. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > It sounds like you're running into > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3351 so the first step > would be to upgrade to a version that has it fixed. > > Unfortunately, this won't solve the problem, just prevent it from > happening in the future. To remove the old nodes, you can apply > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3337 on one node and > call the JMX method for the unreachable endpoints. > > -Brandon >
