There's a ticket open to address this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1974
-ryan On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Terje Marthinussen <tmarthinus...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Terje Marthinussen > <tmarthinus...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Even if the gc call cleaned all files, it is not really acceptable on a >> decent sized cluster due to the impact full gc has on performance. >> Especially non-needed ones. >> > > Not acceptable as running GC on every node in the cluster will further > increase the time period when you have degraded performance. > > Terje >