That sounds odd:
- do you have an idea of how many inserts per second / minute you think you are 
sending?
- Is is just one node thats flushing mem tables fast?
- Can you send the column family for the super busy CF (nodetool cfstats) 
- Can you send the storage-conf.xml
- Can you send the nodetool tpstats for the busy node.

Aaron

On 23 Jun 2010, at 09:47, James Golick wrote:

> It's compacting at a ridiculously fast rate. The pending compactions have 
> been growing for a while.
> 
> It's also flushing memtables really quickly for a particular CF. Like, really 
> quickly. Like, one every minute. I increased the thresholds by 10x and it's 
> still going fast.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Jeremy Dunck <jdu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:08 PM, James Golick <jamesgol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Turns out that this is due to a larger proportion of the wide rows in the
> > system being located on that node. I moved its token over a little to
> > compensate for it, but it doesn't seem to have helped at this point.
> > What's confusing about this is that RF=3 and no other node's load is growing
> > as quickly as that one.
> 
> Maybe it's failing to compact for some reason?
> 

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