It does seem long and will be felt by your application. Are you running a 47GB heap ? Most peeps seem to think 8 to 12 is about the viable maximum.
Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 25/09/2011, at 7:14 PM, Yang wrote: > I see the following in my GC log > > 1910.513: [GC [1 CMS-initial-mark: 2598619K(26214400K)] > 13749939K(49807360K), 6.0696680 secs] [Times: user=6.10 sys=0.00, > real=6.07 secs] > > so there is a stop-the-world period of 6 seconds. does this sound bad > ? or 6 seconds is OK and we should expect the built-in > fault-tolerance of Cassandra handle this? > > Thanks > Yang