Gus, we've found the cause. It was a problem in Cassandra, but it has been already fixed in cassandra 1.1.6.
Commit with the problem: 2c69e2ea757be9492a095aa22b5d51234c4b4102 You can see it at https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12544204/CASSANDRA-4561-CS.patch Commit with the fix: 988ea81d409968614d84dacb3a022dcb156172c3 There is no ticket in JIRA about that commit (at least I couldn't find the ticket). Also our client node just was not synchronized accordingly Cassandra's nodes. Client node lived "in the future" (just a few minutes). So that's the cause of described streams during repair process. Thanks all for the discussion!