[CASSANDRA-8428] Nodetool Drain kills C* Process

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.12
• Labels: nodetool
• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Brandon Williams
• Reporter: Philip Thompson

Authors

Brandon Williams

• Tester: Philip Thompson
• Created: 05/Dec/14 16:12
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31
• Resolved: 12/Dec/14 17:31

Description

Nodetool Drain is documented at http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/NodeTool and in the nodetool help to flush a node and stop accepting writes. This is the behavior I see with 2.1.2.

In 2.0.11 and 1.2.19, instead the Cassandra Process is killed. In the 1.2.19 logs, I see:

 INFO [RMI TCP Connection(2)-192.168.1.5] 2014-12-05 10:32:44,234 StorageService.java (line 964)
 DRAINING: starting drain process
 INFO [RMI TCP Connection(2)-192.168.1.5] 2014-12-05 10:32:44,235 ThriftServer.java (line 116) S
top listening to thrift clients
 INFO [RMI TCP Connection(2)-192.168.1.5] 2014-12-05 10:32:44,239 Server.java (line 159) Stop li
stening for CQL clients
 INFO [RMI TCP Connection(2)-192.168.1.5] 2014-12-05 10:32:44,239 Gossiper.java (line 1203) Announcing shutdown
 INFO [RMI TCP Connection(2)-192.168.1.5] 2014-12-05 10:32:46,240 MessagingService.java (line 696) Waiting for messaging service to quiesce
 INFO [ACCEPT-/127.0.0.1] 2014-12-05 10:32:46,241 MessagingService.java (line 919) MessagingService shutting down server thread.

So it appears this in an intentional shut down, in which case the docs and help are wrong. I could not find a JIRA that described the change in behavior moving to 2.1.

Other users on IRC report that drain works as expected for them on 1.2.19. Attached are 2.0 logs.