You may want to set compaction threshold and not throughput. If you set
the min threshold to something very large (10), compactions will not
start until cassandra finds this many files to compact (which it should
not).
In the past I have used this to stop compactions on a node, and then run a
How much data do you have and how long is "a while"? In my experience repairs
can take a very long time. Check to see if validation compactions are running
(nodetool compactionstats) or if files are streaming (nodetool netstats). If
either of those are in progress then your repair should be r
