CREATE KEYSPACE data WITH replication = {'class': 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'dc1': '3', 'dc2': '3'} AND durable_writes = true;
cqlsh> select * from system_schema.keyspaces ; keyspace_name | durable_writes | replication --------------------+----------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ apim | True | {'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'iwakaluaint': '3', 'maikaiprodv2': '3'} system_auth | True | {'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor': '1'} eventspace | True | {'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'iwakaluaint': '3', 'maikaiprodv2': '3'} system_schema | True | {'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.LocalStrategy'} metrics | True | {'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'iwakaluaint': '3', 'maikaiprodv2': '3'} sim | True | {'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'iwakaluaint': '3', 'maikaiprodv2': '3'} billing | True | {'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'iwakaluaint': '1', 'maikaiprodv2': '1'} system_distributed | True | {'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'iwakaluaint': '3', 'maikaiprodv2': '3'} system | True | {'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.LocalStrategy'} audit | True | {'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'iwakaluaint': '3', 'maikaiprodv2': '3'} dakota_ks | True | {'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'iwakaluaint': '3', 'maikaiprodv2': '3'} credentials | True | {'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'iwakaluaint': '3', 'maikaiprodv2': '3'} system_traces | True | {'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'iwakaluaint': '3', 'maikaiprodv2': '3'} data | True | {'class': 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'iwakaluaint': '3', 'maikaiprodv2': '3'} Keyspaces with replica 1, are unused keyspaces. Most space is occupied by data and eventspace keyspaces. On Wednesday, June 20, 2018, 12:24:18 AM EDT, anil patimidi <arpcassan...@gmail.com> wrote: what is your keyspace configuration. Do you have all the keyspaces configured for both DCs? can you run below query from cqlsh and see if the keyspace is configured to use both DCs select * from system.schema_keyspaces; # if your cluster is on 2.1 or lessselect * from system_schema.keyspaces # for 3.0 clusters - Anil On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 11:06 AM, learner dba <cassandra...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: Hi, Data volume varies a lot in our two DC cluster: Load Tokens Owns 20.01 GiB 256 ? 65.32 GiB 256 ? 60.09 GiB 256 ? 46.95 GiB 256 ? 50.73 GiB 256 ? kaiprodv2 ========= /Leaving/Joining/Moving Load Tokens Owns 25.19 GiB 256 ? 30.26 GiB 256 ? 9.82 GiB 256 ? 20.54 GiB 256 ? 9.7 GiB 256 ? I ran clearsnapshot, garbagecollect and cleanup, but it increased the size on heavier nodes instead of decreasing. Based on nodetool cfstats, I can see partition keys on each node varies a lot: Number of partitions (estimate): 3142552 Number of partitions (estimate): 15625442 Number of partitions (estimate): 15244021 Number of partitions (estimate): 9592992 Number of partitions (estimate): 15839280 How can I diagnose this imbalance further?