Why do you think it's ignoring it? In the output you pasted it said "I'm currently busy with a compaction and I have a backlog of 66 more to get to after that."
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:51 PM, myreasoner <myreaso...@gmail.com> wrote: > It was set the min/4 max/32 > > Current compaction thresholds for MyKeyspace/Fingerprint: > min = 4, max = 32 > > What could possibly cause cassandra to ignore these settings? > > -- > 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-tp6639649p6642138.html > Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com