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Vijay commented on CASSANDRA-4554: ---------------------------------- {quote} I've just attached a patch that I had been working on initially (with just the additional JMX call) {quote} The problem with the attached patch is that, every hint past window will result in a System table read. > Log when a node is down longer than the hint window and we stop saving hints > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-4554 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4554 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Jonathan Ellis > Assignee: Vijay > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 1.2.2 > > Attachments: 0001-CASSANDRA-4554-add-hint-metrics.patch, > 0001-CASSANDRA-4554-logging-to-system-table-v2.patch, > 0002-CASSANDRA-4554-logging-to-system-table.patch, 4554.patch > > > We know that we need to repair whenever we lose a node or disk permanently > (since it may have had undelivered hints on it), but without exposing this we > don't know when nodes stop saving hints for a temporarily dead node, unless > we're paying very close attention to external monitoring. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira