java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to compute ceiling for max when histogram overflowed

On our 8 node Cassandra cluster ( 2.2.4v ) i am seeing the below error on multiple nodes.

ERROR [CompactionExecutor:3] 2016-04-26 01:24:06,784 CassandraDaemon.java:185 - Exception in thread Thread[CompactionExecutor:3,1,main]
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to compute ceiling for max when histogram overflowed
at org.apache.cassandra.utils.EstimatedHistogram.mean(EstimatedHistogram.java:203) ~[apache-cassandra-2.2.4.jar:2.2.4]
at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.metadata.StatsMetadata.getEstimatedDroppableTombstoneRatio(StatsMetadata.java:98) ~[apache-cassandra-2.2.4.jar:2.2.4]
at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.format.SSTableReader.getEstimatedDroppableTombstoneRatio(SSTableReader.java:1840) ~[apache-cassandra-2.2.4.jar:2.2.4]
at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.AbstractCompactionStrategy.worthDroppingTombstones(AbstractCompactionStrategy.java:372) ~[apache-cassandra-2.2.4.jar:2.2.4]
at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.SizeTieredCompactionStrategy.getNextBackgroundSSTables(SizeTieredCompactionStrategy.java:96) ~[apache-cassandra-2.2.4.jar:2.2.4]
at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.SizeTieredCompactionStrategy.getNextBackgroundTask(SizeTieredCompactionStrategy.java:180) ~[apache-cassandra-2.2.4.jar:2.2.4]
at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.WrappingCompactionStrategy.getNextBackgroundTask(WrappingCompactionStrategy.java:85) ~[apache-cassandra-2.2.4.jar:2.2.4]
at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionManager$BackgroundCompactionCandidate.run(CompactionManager.java:241) ~[apache-cassandra-2.2.4.jar:2.2.4]
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) ~[na:1.8.0_65]
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) ~[na:1.8.0_65]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) ~[na:1.8.0_65]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) [na:1.8.0_65]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [na:1.8.0_65]

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