On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Anthony Molinaro <antho...@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote: >> as for why it backs up in the first place before the restart, you can >> either (a) throttle writes [set your timeout lower, make your clients >> back off temporarily when it gets a timeoutexception] > > What timeout is this? Something in the thrift API or a cassandra > configuration?
the latter. iirc it is "RPCTimeout"