Hi Amit, I’m seeing “not marking as down” in the logs like this one,
WARN [GossipTasks:1] 2016-12-29 08:48:02,665 FailureDetector.java:287 - Not marking nodes down due to local pause of 6641241564 > 5000000000 Now the end of the system.log files on all three nodes in one of the data centers are full of NullPointerExceptions and AssertionErrors like these below, would these errors be the cause or a symptom? WARN [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2017-01-02 07:13:56,441 AbstractLocalAwareExecutorService.java:169 - Uncaught exception on thread Thread[SharedPool-Worker-1,5,main]: {} java.lang.NullPointerException: null WARN [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2017-01-02 07:15:02,865 AbstractLocalAwareExecutorService.java:169 - Uncaught exception on thread Thread[SharedPool-Worker-1,5,main]: {} java.lang.AssertionError: null at org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.BufferCell.<init>(BufferCell.java:49) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.BufferCell.tombstone(BufferCell.java:88) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.BufferCell.tombstone(BufferCell.java:83) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.BufferCell.purge(BufferCell.java:175) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.ComplexColumnData.lambda$purge$107(ComplexColumnData.java:165) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.utils.btree.BTree$FiltrationTracker.apply(BTree.java:650) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.utils.btree.BTree.transformAndFilter(BTree.java:693) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.utils.btree.BTree.transformAndFilter(BTree.java:668) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.ComplexColumnData.transformAndFilter(ComplexColumnData.java:170) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.ComplexColumnData.purge(ComplexColumnData.java:165) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.ComplexColumnData.purge(ComplexColumnData.java:43) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.BTreeRow.lambda$purge$102(BTreeRow.java:333) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.utils.btree.BTree$FiltrationTracker.apply(BTree.java:650) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.utils.btree.BTree.transformAndFilter(BTree.java:693) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.utils.btree.BTree.transformAndFilter(BTree.java:668) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.BTreeRow.transformAndFilter(BTreeRow.java:338) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.BTreeRow.purge(BTreeRow.java:333) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.partitions.PurgeFunction.applyToRow(PurgeFunction.java:88) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.transform.BaseRows.hasNext(BaseRows.java:116) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.UnfilteredRowIteratorSerializer.serialize(UnfilteredRowIteratorSerializer.java:133) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.UnfilteredRowIteratorSerializer.serialize(UnfilteredRowIteratorSerializer.java:89) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.UnfilteredRowIteratorSerializer.serialize(UnfilteredRowIteratorSerializer.java:79) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.partitions.UnfilteredPartitionIterators$Serializer.serialize(UnfilteredPartitionIterators.java:294) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.ReadResponse$LocalDataResponse.build(ReadResponse.java:134) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.ReadResponse$LocalDataResponse.<init>(ReadResponse.java:127) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.ReadResponse$LocalDataResponse.<init>(ReadResponse.java:123) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.ReadResponse.createDataResponse(ReadResponse.java:65) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.ReadCommand.createResponse(ReadCommand.java:292) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.ReadCommandVerbHandler.doVerb(ReadCommandVerbHandler.java:50) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.net.MessageDeliveryTask.run(MessageDeliveryTask.java:64) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) ~[na:1.8.0_111] at org.apache.cassandra.concurrent.AbstractLocalAwareExecutorService$FutureTask.run(AbstractLocalAwareExecutorService.java:164) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.concurrent.AbstractLocalAwareExecutorService$LocalSessionFutureTask.run(AbstractLocalAwareExecutorService.java:136) [apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.concurrent.SEPWorker.run(SEPWorker.java:105) [apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [na:1.8.0_111] WARN [SharedPool-Worker-2] 2017-01-02 07:15:03,132 AbstractLocalAwareExecutorService.java:169 - Uncaught exception on thread Thread[SharedPool-Worker-2,5,main]: {} java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageProxy$DroppableRunnable.run(StorageProxy.java:2461) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) ~[na:1.8.0_111] at org.apache.cassandra.concurrent.AbstractLocalAwareExecutorService$FutureTask.run(AbstractLocalAwareExecutorService.java:164) ~[apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.concurrent.AbstractLocalAwareExecutorService$LocalSessionFutureTask.run(AbstractLocalAwareExecutorService.java:136) [apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at org.apache.cassandra.concurrent.SEPWorker.run(SEPWorker.java:105) [apache-cassandra-3.3.0.jar:3.3.0] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [na:1.8.0_111] Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: null RICHARD NEY TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT +1 (978) 848.6640 WORK +1 (916) 846.2353 MOBILE UNITED STATES richard....@aspect.com<mailto:richard....@aspect.com> aspect.com<http://www.aspect.com/> [mailSigLogo-rev.jpg] From: Amit Singh F <amit.f.si...@ericsson.com> Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" <user@cassandra.apache.org> Date: Monday, January 2, 2017 at 4:34 AM To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" <user@cassandra.apache.org> Subject: RE: Trying to find cause of exception Hello, Few pointers : a.) Can you check in system.log for similar msgs like “marking as down” on the node which gives err msg if yes, then please check for GC pause . Heavy load is one of the reason for this. b.) Can you try connecting cqlsh to that node once you get this kind of msgs. Are you able to connect? Regards Amit From: Ney, Richard [mailto:richard....@aspect.com] Sent: Monday, January 02, 2017 3:30 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Trying to find cause of exception My development team has been trying to track down the cause of this Read timeout (30 seconds or more at times) exception below. We’re running a 2 data center deployment with 3 nodes in each data center. Our tables are setup with replication factor = 2 and we have 16G dedicated to the heap with the G1GC for garbage collection. Our systems are AWS M4.2xlarge with 8 CPUs and 32GB of RAM and we have 2 general purpose EBS volumes on each node of 500GB each. Once we start getting these timeouts the cluster doesn’t recover and we are required to shut all Cassandra node down and restart. If anyone has any tips on where to look or what commands to run to help us diagnose this issue we’d be eternally grateful. 2017-01-02 04:33:35.161 [ERROR] [report-compute.ffbec924-ce44-11e6-9e21-0adb9d2dd624] [reportCompute] [ahlworkerslave2.bos.manhattan.aspect-cloud.net:31312] [WorktypeMetrics] Persistence failure when replaying events for persistenceId [/fsms/pens/worktypes/bmwbpy.314]. Last known sequence number [0] java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.datastax.driver.core.exceptions.ReadTimeoutException: Cassandra timeout during read query at consistency ONE (1 responses were required but only 0 replica responded) at com.google.common.util.concurrent.AbstractFuture$Sync.getValue(AbstractFuture.java:299) at com.google.common.util.concurrent.AbstractFuture$Sync.get(AbstractFuture.java:286) at com.google.common.util.concurrent.AbstractFuture.get(AbstractFuture.java:116) at akka.persistence.cassandra.package$$anon$1$$anonfun$run$1.apply(package.scala:17) at scala.util.Try$.apply(Try.scala:192) Caused by: com.datastax.driver.core.exceptions.ReadTimeoutException: Cassandra timeout during read query at consistency ONE (1 responses were required but only 0 replica responded) at com.datastax.driver.core.exceptions.ReadTimeoutException.copy(ReadTimeoutException.java:115) at com.datastax.driver.core.Responses$Error.asException(Responses.java:124) at com.datastax.driver.core.RequestHandler$SpeculativeExecution.onSet(RequestHandler.java:477) at com.datastax.driver.core.Connection$Dispatcher.channelRead0(Connection.java:1005) at com.datastax.driver.core.Connection$Dispatcher.channelRead0(Connection.java:928) Caused by: com.datastax.driver.core.exceptions.ReadTimeoutException: Cassandra timeout during read query at consistency ONE (1 responses were required but only 0 replica responded) at com.datastax.driver.core.Responses$Error$1.decode(Responses.java:62) at com.datastax.driver.core.Responses$Error$1.decode(Responses.java:37) at com.datastax.driver.core.Message$ProtocolDecoder.decode(Message.java:266) at com.datastax.driver.core.Message$ProtocolDecoder.decode(Message.java:246) at io.netty.handler.codec.MessageToMessageDecoder.channelRead(MessageToMessageDecoder.java:89) RICHARD NEY TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT +1 (978) 848.6640 WORK +1 (916) 846.2353 MOBILE UNITED STATES richard....@aspect.com<mailto:richard....@aspect.com> aspect.com<http://www.aspect.com/> [ailSigLogo-rev.jpg] This email (including any attachments) is proprietary to Aspect Software, Inc. and may contain information that is confidential. 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