Dan how did you go with this? More joy, less joy or a continuation of the 
current level of joy?

Aaron


On 24/01/2011, at 9:38 AM, Dan Hendry <dan.hendry.j...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have run into a strange problem and was hoping for suggestions on how to 
> fix it (0.7.0). When compaction occurs on one node for what appears to be one 
> specific column family, the following error pops up the Cassandra log. 
> Compaction apparently fails and temp files don’t get cleaned up. After a 
> while and what seems to be multiple failed compactions on the CF, the node 
> runs out of disk space and crashes. Not sure if it is a related problem or a 
> function of this being a heavily used column family but after failing to 
> compact, compaction restarts on the same CF exacerbating the issue.
> 
>  
> 
> Problems with this specific node started earlier this weekend when it crashed 
> with and OOM error. This is quite surprising since my memtable thresholds and 
> GC settings have been tuned to run with quite a bit of overhead during normal 
> operation (max heap usage usually <= 10 GB on a 12 GB heap, average usage of 
> 6-8 GB). I could not find anything abnormal in the logs which would prompt an 
> OOM.
> 
>  
> 
> I will look things over tomorrow and try to provide a bit more information on 
> the problem but as a solution, I was going to wipe out all SSTables for this 
> CF on this node and then run a repair. Far from ideal, is this a reasonable 
> solution?
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> ERROR [CompactionExecutor:1] 2011-01-23 14:10:29,855 
> AbstractCassandraDaemon.java (line 91) Fatal exception in thread 
> Thread[CompactionExecutor:1,1,RMI Runtime]
> 
> java.io.IOError: java.io.EOFException: attempted to skip -1983579368 bytes 
> but only skipped 0
> 
>         at 
> org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableIdentityIterator.<init>(SSTableIdentityIterator.java:78)
> 
>         at 
> org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableScanner$KeyScanningIterator.next(SSTableScanner.java:178)
> 
>         at 
> org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableScanner$KeyScanningIterator.next(SSTableScanner.java:143)
> 
>         at 
> org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableScanner.next(SSTableScanner.java:135)
> 
>         at 
> org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableScanner.next(SSTableScanner.java:38)
> 
>         at 
> org.apache.commons.collections.iterators.CollatingIterator.set(CollatingIterator.java:284)
> 
>         at 
> org.apache.commons.collections.iterators.CollatingIterator.least(CollatingIterator.java:326)
> 
>         at 
> org.apache.commons.collections.iterators.CollatingIterator.next(CollatingIterator.java:230)
> 
>         at 
> org.apache.cassandra.utils.ReducingIterator.computeNext(ReducingIterator.java:68)
> 
>         at 
> com.google.common.collect.AbstractIterator.tryToComputeNext(AbstractIterator.java:136)
> 
>         at 
> com.google.common.collect.AbstractIterator.hasNext(AbstractIterator.java:131)
> 
>         at 
> org.apache.commons.collections.iterators.FilterIterator.setNextObject(FilterIterator.java:183)
> 
>         at 
> org.apache.commons.collections.iterators.FilterIterator.hasNext(FilterIterator.java:94)
> 
>         at 
> org.apache.cassandra.db.CompactionManager.doCompaction(CompactionManager.java:323)
> 
>         at 
> org.apache.cassandra.db.CompactionManager$1.call(CompactionManager.java:122)
> 
>         at 
> org.apache.cassandra.db.CompactionManager$1.call(CompactionManager.java:92)
> 
>         at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
> 
>         at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
> 
>         at 
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
> 
>         at 
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
> 
>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
> 
> Caused by: java.io.EOFException: attempted to skip -1983579368 bytes but only 
> skipped 0
> 
>         at 
> org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.IndexHelper.skipBloomFilter(IndexHelper.java:52)
> 
>         at 
> org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableIdentityIterator.<init>(SSTableIdentityIterator.java:69)
> 
>         ... 20 more
> 
>  
> 
> Dan Hendry
> 
> (403) 660-2297
> 
>  

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