Yes secondary index builds are done via the compaction manager. Cheers
----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 17/04/2012, at 1:06 PM, Maxim Potekhin wrote: > I noticed that "nodetool compactionstats" shows the building of the secondary > index while > I initiate compaction. Is this to be expected? Cassandra version 0.8.8. > > Thank you > > Maxim >