Thanks Michael, I will try that out.
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 5:28 AM, Laing, Michael <michael.la...@nytimes.com>wrote: > We had a similar problem when our nodes could not sync using ntp due to > VPC ACL settings. -ml > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Steven A Robenalt > <srobe...@stanford.edu>wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am attempting to bring up our new app on a 3-node cluster and am having >> problems with frequent read timeouts and slow inter-node replication. >> Initially, these errors were mostly occurring in our app server, affecting >> 0.02%-1.0% of our queries in an otherwise unloaded cluster. No exceptions >> were logged on the servers in this case, and reads in a single node >> environment with the same code and client driver virtually never see >> exceptions like this, so I suspect problems with the inter-cluster >> communication between nodes. >> >> The 3 nodes are deployed in a single AWS VPC, and are all in a common >> subnet. The Cassandra version is 2.0.2 following an upgrade this past >> weekend due to NPEs in a secondary index that were affecting certain >> queries under 2.0.1. The servers are m1.large instances running AWS Linux >> and Oracle JDK7u40. The first 2 nodes in the cluster are the seed nodes. >> All database contents are CQL tables with replication factor of 3, and the >> application is Java-based, using the latest Datastax 2.0.0-rc1 Java Driver. >> >> In testing with the application, I noticed this afternoon that the >> contents of the 3 nodes differed in their respective copies of the same >> table for newly written data, for time periods exceeding several minutes, >> as reported by cqlsh on each node. Specifying different hosts from the same >> server using cqlsh also exhibited timeouts on multiple attempts to connect, >> and on executing some queries, though they eventually succeeded in all >> cases, and eventually the data in all nodes was fully replicated. >> >> The AWS servers have a security group with only ports 22, 7000, 9042, and >> 9160 open. >> >> At this time, it seems that either I am still missing something in my >> cluster configuration, or maybe there are other ports that are needed for >> inter-node communication. >> >> Any advice/suggestions would be appreciated. >> >> >> >> -- >> Steve Robenalt >> Software Architect >> HighWire | Stanford University >> 425 Broadway St, Redwood City, CA 94063 >> >> srobe...@stanford.edu >> http://highwire.stanford.edu >> >> >> >> >> >> > -- Steve Robenalt Software Architect HighWire | Stanford University 425 Broadway St, Redwood City, CA 94063 srobe...@stanford.edu http://highwire.stanford.edu