Hi, I have python program that inserts data into a Cassandra server, it runs without reporting any problems and all inserts are successful. However, I get recurring errors logs in the server every time I run my python program for inserting data (see sample errors below).
So, should I ignore these errors -OR- are these real problems that I should be fixing? Cheers, Earl Error 1 - "Failed to build index segment..." *** log snippet *** ERROR [SASI-General:21] 2017-12-09 08:18:07,148 PerSSTableIndexWriter.java:262 - Failed to build index segment /var/lib/cassandra/data/rates_local/meta_raterow_buyer-14ffa180dcb811e79e82f58bd8d3766a/mc-21-big-SI_meta_raterow_buyer_effective_thru_idx.db org.apache.cassandra.io.FSWriteError: java.io.IOException: Term - '1970-01-01' belongs to more than 5 keys in SPARSE mode, which is not allowed. at org.apache.cassandra.index.sasi.disk.OnDiskIndexBuilder.finish(OnDiskIndexBuilder.java:328) ~[apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.index.sasi.disk.OnDiskIndexBuilder.finish(OnDiskIndexBuilder.java:269) ~[apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.index.sasi.disk.OnDiskIndexBuilder.finish(OnDiskIndexBuilder.java:241) ~[apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.index.sasi.disk.PerSSTableIndexWriter$Index.lambda$scheduleSegmentFlush$0(PerSSTableIndexWriter.java:258) ~[apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.index.sasi.disk.PerSSTableIndexWriter$Index.lambda$complete$1(PerSSTableIndexWriter.java:287) ~[apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) ~[na:1.8.0_131] at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) ~[na:1.8.0_131] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) ~[na:1.8.0_131] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) ~[na:1.8.0_131] at org.apache.cassandra.concurrent.NamedThreadFactory.lambda$threadLocalDeallocator$0(NamedThreadFactory.java:81) ~[apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) ~[na:1.8.0_131] *** log snippet *** Error 2 - "Can't open index file at..." *** log snippet *** ERROR [CompactionExecutor:4] 2017-12-09 08:18:07,369 DataTracker.java:179 - Can't open index file at /var/lib/cassandra/data/rates_local/meta_raterow_buyer-14ffa180dcb811e79e82f58bd8[16/1905] -21-big-SI_meta_raterow_buyer_effective_thru_idx.db, skipping. java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: position: 455796228778837249, limit: 107 at org.apache.cassandra.index.sasi.utils.MappedBuffer.position(MappedBuffer.java:106) ~[apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.index.sasi.disk.OnDiskIndex.<init>(OnDiskIndex.java:148) ~[apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.index.sasi.SSTableIndex.<init>(SSTableIndex.java:68) ~[apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.index.sasi.conf.DataTracker.getBuiltIndexes(DataTracker.java:159) [apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.index.sasi.conf.DataTracker.update(DataTracker.java:68) [apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.index.sasi.conf.ColumnIndex.update(ColumnIndex.java:147) [apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.index.sasi.SASIIndex.handleNotification(SASIIndex.java:319) [apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.lifecycle.Tracker.notifySSTablesChanged(Tracker.java:410) [apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.lifecycle.LifecycleTransaction.doCommit(LifecycleTransaction.java:227) [apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.utils.concurrent.Transactional$AbstractTransactional.commit(Transactional.java:116) [apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableRewriter.doCommit(SSTableRewriter.java:206) [apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.utils.concurrent.Transactional$AbstractTransactional.commit(Transactional.java:116) [apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.writers.CompactionAwareWriter.doCommit(CompactionAwareWriter.java:105) [apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.utils.concurrent.Transactional$AbstractTransactional.commit(Transactional.java:116) [apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.utils.concurrent.Transactional$AbstractTransactional.commit(Transactional.java:200) [apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.utils.concurrent.Transactional$AbstractTransactional.finish(Transactional.java:185) [apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.writers.CompactionAwareWriter.finish(CompactionAwareWriter.java:121) [apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionTask.runMayThrow(CompactionTask.java:220) [apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.utils.WrappedRunnable.run(WrappedRunnable.java:28) [apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionTask.executeInternal(CompactionTask.java:85) [apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.AbstractCompactionTask.execute(AbstractCompactionTask.java:61) [apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionManager$BackgroundCompactionCandidate.run(CompactionManager.java:268) [apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0] at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) [na:1.8.0_131] *** log snippet *** Error 3 - "LEAK DETECTED..." *** log snippet *** ERROR [Reference-Reaper:1] 2017-12-09 08:18:08,783 Ref.java:224 - LEAK DETECTED: a reference (org.apache.cassandra.utils.concurrent.Ref$State@126a6518) to class org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.format.SSTableReader$InstanceTidier@750364681:/var/lib/cassandra/data/rates_local/meta_raterow_buyer-14ffa180dcb811e79e82f58bd8d3766a/mc-21-big was not released before the reference was garbage collected ERROR [Reference-Reaper:1] 2017-12-09 08:18:08,783 Ref.java:224 - LEAK DETECTED: a reference (org.apache.cassandra.utils.concurrent.Ref$State@3a7af7f6) to class org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.format.SSTableReader$InstanceTidier@750364681:/var/lib/cassandra/data/rates_local/meta_raterow_buyer-14ffa180dcb811e79e82f58bd8d3766a/mc-21-big was not released before the reference was garbage collected *** log snippet ***