Thank you all, I assume, my new node is used as coordinator, since all other nodes are under heavy write load. I need to spare some space for hints folder.
Regards, Osman On Thu, 7 May 2020 at 08:29, Jeff Jirsa <jji...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Incremental bootstrap patch changed the logic here. A node can act as a > coordinator before it's fully joined. It's ... decidedly non-ideal and > probably needs to be changed. > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8942 > > > > > > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 9:57 PM Erick Ramirez <erick.rami...@datastax.com> > wrote: >> >> The fact that a new node is acting as a coordinator suggests that (1) you >> are adding a node to a DC that is taking traffic from the app, and (2) you >> are likely adding the node using nodetool rebuild instead of the standard >> bootstrap method. >> >> If you are adding a node using the rebuild option (with auto_bootstrap set >> to false in cassandra.yaml), the node joins the cluster as a normal node >> except it doesn't have any data to serve read requests but it will accept >> writes. This isn't a recommended way of adding nodes to a DC that is >> actively serving requests from the app. >> >>> As I understand only coordinator nodes generates hints files. Is >>> cluster uses this node as coordinator before complete join? >>> Or this process is normal for joining and seen as repair? >> >> >> The fact that the new node is storing hints is a concern because it >> indicates that other nodes in your cluster are unresponsive or down. You >> need to investigate why that is the case. >> >>> >>> By the way, files not deleted after 3 hour period. >> >> >> The node will collect hints for other nodes for 3 hours (default). If the >> replica has not come back online after 3 hours, hints will no longer be >> stored but it doesn't delete the hints but instead hand it off to the >> respective replica when it comes back online. Cheers! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@cassandra.apache.org
