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