Did you start the repair on all nodes at once or one at a time ? Take a look at the streams on the nodes, using either nodetool -h localhost -p 8080 streams Or the JMX interface. Check if the numbers are changing. Aaron  On 28 Jul, 2010,at 08:14 AM, Michael Andreasen wrote: > I've started repair on 6 nodes some 7-8 hours ago > > The nodes still have load of 2-3 (normally 0.5) and if i grep AE in system.log i get lines like this on most of the nodes > > Performing streaming repair of 30 ranges to /172.19.0.32 for ....... > > Load is 400-500gb on the nodes. > > Any word of advise on this one, should i just wait or do you think its failed? > > Thanks > Mike > >