How does the difference in load compare to the effective ownership? If you deleted the system directory as well, you should end up with new ranges, so I'm wondering if perhaps you just ended up with a really bad shuffle. Did you run removenode on the old host after you took it down (I assume so since all nodes are in UN status)? Is the test node in its own seeds list?
On Tue Dec 02 2014 at 4:10:10 PM Robert Wille <rwi...@fold3.com> wrote: > I didn’t do anything except kill the server process, delete > /var/lib/cassandra, and start it back up again. nodetool status shows all > nodes as UN, and doesn’t display any unexpected nodes. > > I don’t know if this sheds any light on the issue, but I’ve added a > considerable amount of data to the cluster since I did the aforementioned > test. The difference in size between the nodes is shrinking. The other > nodes are growing more slowly than the one I recommissioned. That was > definitely not something that I expected, and I don’t have any explanation > for that either. > > Robert > > On Dec 2, 2014, at 3:38 PM, Tyler Hobbs <ty...@datastax.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Robert Wille <rwi...@fold3.com> wrote: > >> As a a test, I took down a node, deleted /var/lib/cassandra and restarted >> it. > > > Did you decommission or removenode it when you took it down? If you > didn't, the "old" node is still in the ring, and affects the replication. > > > -- > Tyler Hobbs > DataStax <http://datastax.com/> > > >
