This problem was solved by forming a 3-node large-instance cluster. The
pause went away. I thought I would try a single node configuration to test
the intensive inserts, as you would expect to just work (though may not
performing well). It turns out somehow Cassandra likes to have a minimum
amount
Jon,
Looks like this compaction process took 360 seconds. What is it and how do I
avoid it?
INFO [COMPACTION-POOL:1] 2010-06-30 14:56:08,667 CompactionManager.java
(line 246) Compacting
[org.apache.cassandra.io.SSTableReader(path='/mnt/itops/cdata/TFO/CurrentHolding-129-Data.db'),org.apache.cassan
