> My gut feel: Maybe, if the slowness/timeouts reported by the OP are > intermixed with periods of activity to indicate compacting full gc.
But even then, after taking a single full GC the behavior should disappear since there should be no left-overs from the smaller columns causing fragmentation issues. *Maybe* after two full gc:s tops if the first happens while there's a mix still active in memtables. -- / Peter Schuller