Thanks Alex. That’s exactly what I ended up doing - it did take maybe 45m to come back up though :(
-B Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 3, 2018, at 9:03 AM, Alexander Dejanovski <a...@thelastpickle.com> > wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > I just tested this on a CCM cluster and the node started without problem. It > flushed some new SSTables a short while after. > > I honestly do not know the specifics of how size_estimates is used, but if it > prevented a node from restarting I'd definitely remove the sstables to get it > back up. > > Cheers, > >> On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 1:53 PM Brian Spindler <brian.spind...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> Hi guys, I've got a 2.1.15 node that will not start it seems. Hangs on >> Opening system.size_estimates. Sometimes it can take a while but I've let >> it run for 90m and nothing. Should I move this sstable out of the way to >> let it start? will it rebuild/refresh size estimates if I remove that >> folder? >> >> thanks >> -B > -- > ----------------- > Alexander Dejanovski > France > @alexanderdeja > > Consultant > Apache Cassandra Consulting > http://www.thelastpickle.com