On the node that the compaction returned almost immediately: *woot@n50:~$ /opt/cassandra/bin/nodetool -h localhost compactionstats pending tasks: 66*
However, messages shown on other nodes are: compaction type: Major keyspace: MyKeyspace column family: Fingerprint bytes compacted: 25505066421 bytes total: 45573108438 compaction progress: 55.97% ----------------- pending tasks: 1 -- View this message in context: http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Read-latency-is-over-1-minute-on-a-column-family-with-400-000-rows-tp6639649p6639836.html Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at Nabble.com.