The number of pending tasks doesn't decrease

[John Wong <go...@gmail.com>]

Hi
We monitor the number of pending tasks and in our dev cluster (size of 3),
for two out of three nodes, the # of pending tasks did not decrease until I
restarted cassandra on those two nodes. This is not the first time I saw
this behavior. It is Saturday today and the traffic is very little.

nodetool compactionstats

pending tasks: 5
Active compaction remaining time :        n/a


I have read http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.cassandra.user/30555
but the comments were derailing in some way. I found nothing unusual in the
log file. Like I said I restarted two of the nodes with the high count and
then the count has gone down to 0.

We are on 1.2.16.

Thanks.

John