Hi, Thanks a lot Aaron. I had killed this process before it 8 attempts got completed. Now it it uploading records. Now, I am trying to perform parallel SSTable upload using 2 instances(127.0.0.2 & 127.0.0.3).  Now the first instance is uploading and the second instance(127.0.0.3), I am getting below error. These both instance are running on cassandra seed node. nutch@lab02:/code/sstable0-cassandra-0.8.6$ bin/sstableloader --debug -v ipovw Starting client (and waiting 30 seconds for gossip) ... org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused     at org.apache.cassandra.tools.BulkLoader$ExternalClient.init(BulkLoader.java:225)     at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableLoader.stream(SSTableLoader.java:104)     at org.apache.cassandra.tools.BulkLoader.main(BulkLoader.java:61) Caused by: org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused     at org.apache.thrift.transport.TSocket.open(TSocket.java:183)     at org.apache.thrift.transport.TFramedTransport.open(TFramedTransport.java:81)     at org.apache.cassandra.tools.BulkLoader$ExternalClient.createThriftClient(BulkLoader.java:245)     at org.apache.cassandra.tools.BulkLoader$ExternalClient.init(BulkLoader.java:193)     ... 2 more Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333)     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195)     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182)     at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)     at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:525)     at org.apache.thrift.transport.TSocket.open(TSocket.java:178)     ... 5 more nutch@lab02:/code/sstable0-cassandra-0.8.6$ Any help would be appreciated.   Regards, Thamizhannal ________________________________ From: aaron morton To: user@cassandra.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, 28 September 2011 2:04 PM Subject: Re: Bulk uploader issue on multi-node cluster Thats just a warning, it should keep trying to connect. Does it make any progress  ? After 8 attempts it should fail with an error.  With the debug option you should get a full stack trace printed if it fails, can you send that along as well.  It's probably some sort of config problem. Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 28/09/2011, at 3:44 AM, Thamizh wrote: Hi, > >I had set below config on SSTable instance (127.0.0.2). > >auto_bootstrap: false >seeds: "172.27.15.2" (lab02) >rpc_address: 127.0.0.2 >listen_address: 127.0.0.2 >rpc_port: 9160 >storage_port: 7000 > >#ifconfig >lo:2      Link encap:Local Loopback  >          inet addr:127.0.0.2  Mask:255.0.0.0 >          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1 > >But When I ran sstableloader command it ended up with below error > >I nutch@lab02:/code/SST/apache-cassandra-0.8.6$ bin/sstableloader --debug -v /code/sstable0-cassandra-0.8.6/SSTableUploader/ipovw >Starting client (and waiting 30 seconds for gossip) ... >Streaming revelant part of /code/sstable0-cassandra-0.8.6/SSTableUploader/ipovw/ip-g-1-Data.db to [/172.27.15.4, /172.27.15.2, /172.27.15.3] > >progress: [/172.27.15.4 0/0 (100)] [/172.27.15.2 0/1 (0)] [/172.27.15.3 0/0 (100)] [total: 0 - 0MB/s (avg: 0MB/s)] WARN 09:42:14,883 Failed attempt 1 to connect to /172.27.15.4 to stream null. Retrying in 20000 ms. (java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument) >progress: [/172.27.15.4 0/0 (100)] [/172.27.15.2 0/1 (0)] [/172.27.15.3 0/0 (100)] [total: 0 - 0MB/s (avg: 0MB/s)] > > >When I issue, bin/nodetool --host ring. I could see the ring topology has formed. I am using Cassandra-0.8.6 version. > >Any suggestion would be appreciated. > >Regards, >Thamizhannal P > >--- On Fri, 23/9/11, Benoit Perroud wrote: > > >>From: Benoit Perroud >>Subject: Re: Bulk uploader issue on multi-node cluster >>To: user@cassandra.apache.org >>Date: Friday, 23 September, 2011, 9:01 PM >> >> >>On the sstableloader config, make sure you have the seed set and rpc_address and rpc_port pointing to your cassandra instance (127.0.0.2)  >> >> >> >> >> >>2011/9/23 Thamizh >> >>Hi All, >>> >>>I am using bulk-loading to upload data(from lab02) to multi-node cluster of 3 machines(lab02,lab03 & lab04) with sigle ethernet card. I have created SSTable instance on lab02 by duplicating look back address( sudo ifconfig lo:2 127.0.0.2 netmask 255.0.0.0 up; ) "127.0.0.2" as rpc and storage address. Here 'sstableloader' ended up with below error message, >>> >>>Starting client (and waiting 30 seconds for gossip) ... >>>java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot load any sstable, no live member found in the cluster >>> >>>Here, in my case, Does lab02 machine should have 2 ethernet card(one for cassandra original instance and another for 'sstableloader') ? >>> >>>Regards, >>>Thamizhannal >>> >>