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Subject: hints system CF getting out of control
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:31:57 -0500
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We're trying to bootstrap some new nodes and it appears when adding a =
new node that there is a lot of logging on hints being flushed and =
compacted.  It's been taking about 75 minutes thus far to bootstrap for =
only about 10 GB of data.  It's ballooned up to over 40 GB on the new =
node.  I do 'ls -l $CASSANDRA/data/system | grep -i hint | wc -l' and =
it's over 2000.

Any idea why this would be happening and why it's going crazy flushing =
these files?  It's also trying to keep up and compacting them as well.

Completed flushing =
$CASSANDRA/data/system/HintsColumnFamily-f-1740-Data.db

Version 0.7.8 (upgrading from 0.7.6 right now)
Number of nodes: 20=