Re: disk full error while bootstrapping

2010-09-09 Thread Gurpreet Singh
I did set autobootstrap true. It got the new token, and even proceeded to print the message that its bootstrapping, however the source node just didnt show any activity. At a later point, when i tried again (after the other bootstrap from the other source was finished), it did proceed, however that

Re: disk full error while bootstrapping

2010-09-09 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Gurpreet Singh wrote: > D was once a part of the cluster, but had gone down because of disk issues. > Its back up, it still has the old data, however to bootstrap again, i > deleted the old Location db (is that a good practise?), and so i see it did > take a new tok

Re: disk full error while bootstrapping

2010-09-09 Thread Gurpreet Singh
Thanks Jonathan. I guess i need to be patient for JVM GC :-) Two more things i was trying, and wanted to check if it was supported. Now, i have a 2 node cluster (say A and B), and i am trying to bootstrap 2 more nodes. (C and D) The first bootstrap started successfully. I see anticompaction happen

Re: disk full error while bootstrapping

2010-09-09 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Gurpreet Singh wrote: > 1. what is the purpose of this anticompacted file created during cleanup? That is all the data that still belongs to the node, post-bootstrap. Since you were just bringing the cluster back up to RF nodes, that's all the data it started with

Re: disk full error while bootstrapping

2010-09-08 Thread Gurpreet Singh
Thanks Jonathan. I added an extra directory big enough and at least the bootstrap worked. However, it brings me to questions that i cant seem to find an answer to. In my case, i had a 2 node cluster to start with, replication factor of 2, basically all data residing on both machines. Both nodes h

Re: disk full error while bootstrapping

2010-09-08 Thread Jonathan Ellis
if you have a data directory defined with enough room, Cassandra will use that one. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Gurpreet Singh wrote: > Hi, > version: cassandra 0.6.5 > I am trying to bootstrap a new node from an existing seed node. > The new node seems to be stuck with the bootstrapping mess

disk full error while bootstrapping

2010-09-08 Thread Gurpreet Singh
Hi, version: cassandra 0.6.5 I am trying to bootstrap a new node from an existing seed node. The new node seems to be stuck with the bootstrapping message, and did not show any activity. Only after i checked the logs of the seed node, i realise there has been an error: Caused by: java.lang.Unsupp