Btw anyone having problems with repair might like to follow proposal for
different system:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3620
With this system you would only need to run repair to ensure all data has
maximum redundancy across the cluster (which also increases consistency for
Cons
The more physical data that lives on a node the more intensive operations
are. Especially read based ops.
Even if your ring is balanced something like a failed repair could create a
data imbalance.
>From some offline talks with you I know you node count is on smaller end
and repairs have been pro
What could be the reason I see unequal loads on a 3-node cluster?
This all started happening during repairs (which again are not going
smoothly).
Maxim