Are you hitting long GCs on your nodes? Can check gc log or look at cassandra log for GCInspector.
Chris On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Cheng Ren <cheng....@bloomreach.com> wrote: > Hi Carlos, > Thanks for your suggestion. We did check the NTP setting and clock, and > they are all working normally. Schema versions are also consistent with > peers'. > BTW, the only change we made was to set some of nodes' request > timeout(read_request_timeout, write_request_timeout, range_request_timeout > and request_timeout) from 30000 to 10000 for 6 nodes yesterday. Will this > affect internode gossip? > > Thanks, > Cheng > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Carlos Rolo <r...@pythian.com> wrote: > >> Hi Cheng, >> >> Are all machines configured with NTP and all clocks in sync? If that is >> not the case do it. >> >> If your clocks are not in sync it causes some weird issues like the ones >> you see, but also schema disagreements and in some cases corrupted data. >> >> Regards, >> >> Regards, >> >> Carlos Juzarte Rolo >> Cassandra Consultant >> >> Pythian - Love your data >> >> rolo@pythian | Twitter: cjrolo | Linkedin: *linkedin.com/in/carlosjuzarterolo >> <http://linkedin.com/in/carlosjuzarterolo>* >> Tel: 1649 >> www.pythian.com >> >> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:40 AM, Cheng Ren <cheng....@bloomreach.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> We have a two-dc cluster with 21 nodes and 27 nodes in each DC. Over the >>> past few months, we have seen nodetool status marks 4-8 nodes down while >>> they are actually functioning. Particularly today we noticed that running >>> nodetool status on some nodes shows higher number of nodes are down than >>> before while they are actually up and serving requests. >>> For example, on one node it shows 42 nodes are down. >>> >>> phi_convict_threshold of all nodes are set as 12, and we are running >>> cassandra 2.0.4 on AWS EC2 machines. >>> >>> Does anyone have recommendation on identifying the root cause of this? >>> Will this cause any consequences? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Cheng >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> >