Found the problem, it turns out that what Bharatendra suggested was correct. I had set the memtable_flush_writers to equal the number of cores but hadn't restarted the Cassandra process, so they didn't take the configuration.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Soerian Lieve <sli...@liveramp.com> > wrote: > >> I did already set that to the number of cores of the machines (24), but >> it made no difference. >> > > I continue to suggest that you file a JIRA ticket... I feel you have done > sufficient community based due dilligence to question whether this > performance is expected on the server side. You have a repro path to > illustrate the behavior. Why not file a JIRA? > > (and respond on thread with its url...) > > =Rob > >
