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Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 12:09:25 -0400
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Subject: Re: getting status of long running repair
From: Bill Au <bill.w.au@gmail.com>
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I restarted the nodes and then restarted the repair.  It is still hanging
like before.  Do I keep repeating until the repair actually finish?

Bill

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Rob Coli <rcoli@palominodb.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Bill Au <bill.w.au@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I know repair may take a long time to run.  I am running repair on a node
> > with about 15 GB of data and it is taking more than 24 hours.  Is that
> > normal?  Is there any way to get status of the repair?  tpstats does
> show 2
> > active and 2 pending AntiEntropySessions.  But netstats and
> compactionstats
> > show no activity.
>
> As indicated by various recent threads to this effect, many versions
> of cassandra (including current 1.0.x release) contain bugs which
> sometimes prevent repair from completing. The other threads suggest
> that some of these bugs result in the state you are in now, where you
> do not see anything that looks like appropriate activity.
> Unfortunately the only solution offered on these other threads is the
> one I will now offer, which is to restart the participating nodes and
> re-start the repair. I am unaware of any JIRA tickets tracking these
> bugs (which doesn't mean they don't exist, of course) so you might
> want to file one. :)
>
> =Rob
>
> --
> =Robert Coli
> AIM&GTALK - rcoli@palominodb.com
> YAHOO - rcoli.palominob
> SKYPE - rcoli_palominodb
>

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I restarted the nodes and then restarted the repair.=A0 It is still hanging=
 like before.=A0 Do I keep repeating until the repair actually finish?<br><=
br>Bill<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:18 PM, R=
ob Coli <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:rcoli@palominodb.com" targe=
t=3D"_blank">rcoli@palominodb.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=3D"HOEnZb"><div class=3D"h5">On F=
ri, May 4, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Bill Au &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:bill.w.au@gmail.=
com">bill.w.au@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>

&gt; I know repair may take a long time to run.=A0 I am running repair on a=
 node<br>
&gt; with about 15 GB of data and it is taking more than 24 hours.=A0 Is th=
at<br>
&gt; normal?=A0 Is there any way to get status of the repair?=A0 tpstats do=
es show 2<br>
&gt; active and 2 pending AntiEntropySessions.=A0 But netstats and compacti=
onstats<br>
&gt; show no activity.<br>
<br>
</div></div>As indicated by various recent threads to this effect, many ver=
sions<br>
of cassandra (including current 1.0.x release) contain bugs which<br>
sometimes prevent repair from completing. The other threads suggest<br>
that some of these bugs result in the state you are in now, where you<br>
do not see anything that looks like appropriate activity.<br>
Unfortunately the only solution offered on these other threads is the<br>
one I will now offer, which is to restart the participating nodes and<br>
re-start the repair. I am unaware of any JIRA tickets tracking these<br>
bugs (which doesn&#39;t mean they don&#39;t exist, of course) so you might<=
br>
want to file one. :)<br>
<span class=3D"HOEnZb"><font color=3D"#888888"><br>
=3DRob<br>
<br>
--<br>
=3DRobert Coli<br>
AIM&amp;GTALK - <a href=3D"mailto:rcoli@palominodb.com">rcoli@palominodb.co=
m</a><br>
YAHOO - rcoli.palominob<br>
SKYPE - rcoli_palominodb<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br>

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