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Subject: Re: Cassandra data distribution and configuration settings
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Jon,

what is your key distribution?
did you set

<InitialToken/>

on each node according to this distribution?

TR


Jon Graham wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>  
> I am running a 10 node Cassandra cluster using a recent cassandra trunk.
>  
> After inserting a million data records using  keys of 128 character 
> lower case hex digits and
> 1024 data values, I noticed that most all of the is accumulated on 
> only 3 nodes.
>  
> I am using the OrderPreservingPartitioner setting in the 
> storage-conf.xml file.
>  
> What do I need to take to get a balanced data distribution?
>  
> Is there a way to limit the size of an individual database file?
>  
> Is there additonal Cassandra configuration documentation outside 
> of the storage-conf.xml file?
>  
> Thanks for your help,
> Jon
>  
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