Rather than use nodetool load balance, assign the tokens manually. See the section on load balancing here http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations

use nodetool move or set the tokens in the yaml. 

I'm may be wrong here, but after the move run repair to make sure each node has all the data it should, then cleanup to remove data it should not have, then (perhaps) compact to trigger GC and clean up any un used files. 

(brain is a little fuzzy today, so please excuse any stupids :) )
Aaron


On 27 Oct, 2010,at 10:38 AM, Joe Alex <joe.m.alex@gmail.com> wrote:

I did not. I did try "cleanup" and here is after that.
Was expecting an even distribution and total load to be approximately
same as before

also was reading this https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1418


Address Status Load Range
Ring

127314552263552317194896535803056965704
10.210.32.75 Up 684.52 MB
3261306534628430564231103090162243723 |<--|
10.210.32.92 Up 727.91 MB
38958085454962719903262501903937071633 | |
10.210.32.93 Up 366.47 MB
81410091240220304547331026452103785021 | |
10.210.32.74 Up 415.47 MB
127314552263552317194896535803056965704 |-->|


On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Arya Goudarzi <agoudarzi@gaiaonline.com> wrote:
> Do you perform nodetool cleanup after you loadbalance?
>
> ________________________________
> From: "Joe Alex" <joe.m.alex@gmail.com>
> To: cassandra-user@incubator.apache.org
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 2:06:58 PM
> Subject: After loadbalance why does the size increase
>
> Hi,
>
> I have Cassandra 0.6.6 running on 4 nodes with RF=2. I have around 2
> million rows for a simple test.
> Can somebody tell me why does the size keep increasing after running
> "loadbalance"
>
> Address       Status     Load          Range
>            Ring
>
> 127384081359183520765545698844531833520
> 10.210.32.75  Up         458.08 MB
> 3261306534628430564231103090162243723      |<--|
> 10.210.32.92  Up         407.88 MB
> 38958085454962719903262501903937071633     |   |
> 10.210.32.93  Up         350.51 MB
> 81410091240220304547331026452103785021     |   |
> 10.210.32.74  Up         498.58 MB
> 127384081359183520765545698844531833520    |-->|
>
>
> Address       Status     Load          Range
>            Ring
>
> 127314552263552317194896535803056965704
> 10.210.32.75  Up         684.52 MB
> 3261306534628430564231103090162243723      |<--|
> 10.210.32.92  Up         624.67 MB
> 38958085454962719903262501903937071633     |   |
> 10.210.32.93  Up         350.51 MB
> 81410091240220304547331026452103785021     |   |
> 10.210.32.74  Up         924.65 MB
> 127314552263552317194896535803056965704    |-->|
>