You should throttle your compactions to a sustainable level. -ryan
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Hefeng Yuan <hfy...@rhapsody.com> wrote: > We just noticed that at one time, 4 nodes were doing minor compaction > together, each of them took 20~60 minutes. > We're on 0.8.1, 6 nodes, RF5. > This simultaneous compactions slowed down the whole cluster, we have > local_quorum consistency level, therefore, dynamic_snitch is not helping us. > > Aside from lower down the compaction thread priority, is there any other way > to tell the cluster hold on doing this if other nodes are already compacting? > > Thanks, > Hefeng