If you are using sized teired set minCompactionThreshold to 0 and maxCompactionThreshold to 0. You can probably also use this https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2130
But if you do not compact the number of sstables gets high and then read performance can suffer. On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Radim Kolar <h...@filez.com> wrote: > its possible to disable node wide all sstable compaction? I cant find > anything suitable in JMX console.