On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> And what is the reasoning behind lowering object count? Isn't it >> whichever hits first which causes flushing? Or is there other >> memory used when object count is higher? > > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/MemtableThresholds
These are available via JMX btw, so you can graph them and see where they are at when the memtables get flushed. -Jonathan