Hi All, I'm experiencing the following errors while bulk loading data into a cluster
ERROR [Thread-23] 2012-04-05 09:58:12,252 AbstractCassandraDaemon.java (line 139) Fatal exception in thread Thread[Thread-23,5,main] java.lang.RuntimeException: Insufficient disk space to flush 7813594056494754913 bytes at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.getFlushPath(ColumnFamilyStore.java:635) at org.apache.cassandra.streaming.StreamIn.getContextMapping(StreamIn.java:92) at org.apache.cassandra.streaming.IncomingStreamReader.<init>(IncomingStreamReader.java:68) at org.apache.cassandra.net.IncomingTcpConnection.stream(IncomingTcpConnection.java:185) at org.apache.cassandra.net.IncomingTcpConnection.run(IncomingTcpConnection.java:81) Here I'm not really sure I was able to generate 7 exa bytes of data ;) ERROR [Thread-46] 2012-04-05 09:58:14,453 AbstractCassandraDaemon.java (line 139) Fatal exception in thread Thread[Thread-46,5,main] java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTable.getMinimalKey(SSTable.java:156) at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableWriter.closeAndOpenReader(SSTableWriter.java:334) at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableWriter.closeAndOpenReader(SSTableWriter.java:302) at org.apache.cassandra.streaming.IncomingStreamReader.streamIn(IncomingStreamReader.java:155) at org.apache.cassandra.streaming.IncomingStreamReader.read(IncomingStreamReader.java:89) at org.apache.cassandra.net.IncomingTcpConnection.stream(IncomingTcpConnection.java:185) at org.apache.cassandra.net.IncomingTcpConnection.run(IncomingTcpConnection.java:81) This one sounds like a null key added to the SSTable at some point, but I'm rather confident I'm checking for key nullity. Errors are seen in different nodes. Some nodes succeeded. All 5 cluster nodes run 1.0.8 with JNA enabled. Basically I'm generating SSTables in a Hadoop Reducer, storing them in HDFS. After the job finished, I download them back into a single node and streaming the files into Cassandra (Yes, I definitely need to try 1.1). Do someone have a hint or a pointer where to start looking ? Thanks, Benoit.