> Is the problem that cassandra is attempting to load all the deleted columns
> into memory?
Yup.
The talk by Mat Dennis at the Cassandra Summit may be of interest to you. He
talks about similar things
http://www.datastax.com/events/cassandrasummit2012/presentations
Drop the gc_grace_seconds
I have a column family that I am using for consistency purposes. Basically
a marker column is written to a row in this family before some actions take
place and is deleted only after all the actions complete. The idea is that
if something goes horribly wrong this table can be read to see what needs
