Hi all,
  One of my cassandra nodes crashes with the following exception
periodically -
ERROR [HintedHandoff:33] 2013-12-25 20:29:22,276 SliceQueryFilter.java
(line 200) Scanned over 100000 tombstones; query aborted (see
tombstone_fail_thr
eshold)
ERROR [HintedHandoff:33] 2013-12-25 20:29:22,278 CassandraDaemon.java (line
187) Exception in thread Thread[HintedHandoff:33,1,main]
org.apache.cassandra.db.filter.TombstoneOverwhelmingException
        at
org.apache.cassandra.db.filter.SliceQueryFilter.collectReducedColumns(SliceQueryFilter.java:201)
        at
org.apache.cassandra.db.filter.QueryFilter.collateColumns(QueryFilter.java:122)
        at
org.apache.cassandra.db.filter.QueryFilter.collateOnDiskAtom(QueryFilter.java:80)
        at
org.apache.cassandra.db.filter.QueryFilter.collateOnDiskAtom(QueryFilter.java:72)
        at
org.apache.cassandra.db.CollationController.collectAllData(CollationController.java:297)
        at
org.apache.cassandra.db.CollationController.getTopLevelColumns(CollationController.java:53)
        at
org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.getTopLevelColumns(ColumnFamilyStore.java:1487)
        at
org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.getColumnFamily(ColumnFamilyStore.java:1306)
        at
org.apache.cassandra.db.HintedHandOffManager.doDeliverHintsToEndpoint(HintedHandOffManager.java:351)
        at
org.apache.cassandra.db.HintedHandOffManager.deliverHintsToEndpoint(HintedHandOffManager.java:309)
        at
org.apache.cassandra.db.HintedHandOffManager.access$300(HintedHandOffManager.java:92)
        at
org.apache.cassandra.db.HintedHandOffManager$4.run(HintedHandOffManager.java:530)
        at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
        at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)

Why does this happen? Does this relate to any incorrect config value?

The Cassandra Version I'm running is
ReleaseVersion: 2.0.3

- Sanjeeth

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