Hi, We are running a 7 node Cassandra 2.2.8 cluster, RF=3, and had been running repairs with the —pr option, via a cron job that runs on each node once per week.
We changed that as some advice on the Cassandra IRC channel said it would cause more anticompaction and http://docs.datastax.com/en/archived/cassandra/2.2/cassandra/tools/toolsRepair.html <http://docs.datastax.com/en/archived/cassandra/2.2/cassandra/tools/toolsRepair.html> says “Performing partitioner range repairs by using the -pr option is generally considered a good choice for doing manual repairs. However, this option cannot be used with incremental repairs (default for Cassandra 2.2 and later). Only problem is our -pr repairs were taking about 8 hours, and now the non-pr repair are taking 24+ - I guess this makes sense, repairing 1/7 of data increased to 3/7, except I was hoping to see a speed up after the first loop through the cluster as each repair will be marking much more data as repaired, right? Is running -pr with incremental repairs really that bad?
