I am running stress test and on one of the nodes I see: [root@dsdb5 ~]# nodetool -h `hostname` tpstats Pool Name Active Pending Completed ReadStage 0 0 2495 RequestResponseStage 0 0 242202 MutationStage 48 521 287850 ReadRepairStage 0 0 799 GossipStage 0 0 10639 AntiEntropyStage 0 0 0 MigrationStage 0 0 202 MemtablePostFlusher 1 2 1047 StreamStage 0 0 0 FlushWriter 1 1 1047 FILEUTILS-DELETE-POOL 0 0 2048 MiscStage 0 0 0 FlushSorter 0 0 0 InternalResponseStage 0 0 0 HintedHandoff 1 3 5
and cfstats Keyspace: StressKeyspace Read Count: 2494 Read Latency: 4987.431669206095 ms. Write Count: 281705 Write Latency: 0.017631469090005503 ms. Pending Tasks: 49 Column Family: StressStandard SSTable count: 882 Space used (live): 139589196497 Space used (total): 139589196497 Memtable Columns Count: 6 Memtable Data Size: 14204955 Memtable Switch Count: 1932 Read Count: 2494 Read Latency: 5921.633 ms. Write Count: 282522 Write Latency: 0.017 ms. Pending Tasks: 32 Key cache capacity: 1000000 Key cache size: 1198 Key cache hit rate: 0.0013596193065941536 Row cache: disabled Compacted row minimum size: 219343 Compacted row maximum size: 5839588 Compacted row mean size: 557125 I am just running simple test in 6 node cassandra 4 GB heap, 96 GB RAM and 12 core per host. I am inserting 1M rows with avg col size of 250k. I keep getting "Dropped mutation" messages in logs. Not sure how to troubleshoot or tune it. Can someone please help? -- View this message in context: http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Lot-of-pending-tasks-for-writes-tp6263462p6263462.html Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at Nabble.com.