First, lets check if the timeouts are client or server side.
What was the timeout error stack ?
Were they (python/thrift) socket timeouts or TimedOutException's raised by the
cassandra thrift code.
Is it across all requests / clients or say just read?
Have you tried asking on http://groups.go
Interesting issue this morning.
My apps started throwing a bunch of pycassa timeouts all of a sudden.
The ring looked perfect. No load issues anywhere, and no errors in the
logs.
The site was basically down, so I got desperate and whacked a random
node in the ring. As soon as gossip saw it go dow
