thanks for the response Aaron.   Our cluster has 6 nodes with 10 GB load on each.   RF=3.    AMD 64 bit Blades, Quad Core, 8 GB ram,  running Debian Linux.  Swap off.  Cassandra 0.7.4


On Apr 6, 2011, at 2:40 AM, aaron morton wrote:

> Not that I know of, may be useful to be able to throttle things. But if the receiving node has little head room it may still be overwhelmed.
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> Currently there is a single thread for streaming. If we were to throttle it may be best to make it multi threaded with a single concurrent stream per end point. 
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> Out of interest how many nodes do you have and whats the RF?
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> Aaron
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> On 6 Apr 2011, at 01:16, Jonathan Colby wrote:
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>> When doing a move, decommission, loadbalance, etc.  data is streamed to the next node in such a way that it really strains the receiving node - to the point where it has a problem serving requests.   
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>> Any way to throttle the streaming of data?
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