My bad, I missed the way TokenMetadata.ringIterator() and firstTokenIndex() work.
Eric, can you show the output from nodetool ring ? Aaron On 3 May 2011, at 07:30, Eric tamme wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 2:18 PM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote: >>> When the NTS selects replicas in a DC it orders the tokens available in >>> the DC, then (in the first pass) iterates through them placing a replica in >>> each unique rack. e.g. if the RF in each DC was 2, the replicas would be >>> put on 2 unique racks if possible. So the lowest token in the DC will >>> *always* get a write. >> >> It's supposed to start w/ the node closest to the token in each DC, so >> that shouldn't be the case unless you are using BOP/OPP instead of RP. >> > > I am using a RandomPartitioner as shown below: > > Cluster Information: > Snitch: org.apache.cassandra.locator.PropertyFileSnitch > Partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.RandomPartitioner > > So as far as "closeness" .. how does that get factored in when using a > PropertyFileSnitch? Is one rack closer than the other? In reality > for each data center there are two nodes in the same rack on the same > switch, but I set the topology file up to have 2 racks per data > center specifically so I would get distribution. > > -Eric
