How many rows are you asking for in the multget_slice and what thread pools are showing pending tasks ?
Also, what happens when you reduce the number of rows in the request? Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 21/12/2011, at 11:57 AM, Philippe wrote: > Hello, > 5 nodes running 0.8.7/0.8.9, RF=3, BOP, counter columns inside super columns. > Read queries are multigetslices of super columns inside of which I read every > column for processing (20-30 at most), using Hector with default settings. > Watching tpstat on the 3 nodes holding the data being most often queries, I > see the pending count increase only on the "main replica" and I see heavy CPU > load and network load only on that node. The other nodes seem to be doing > very little. > > Aren't counter read requests supposed to be round-robin across replicas ? I'm > confused as to why the nodes don't exhibit the same load. > > Thanks