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Subject: unable to delete
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C*,

Is it considered normal for cassandra to experience this error:

ERROR [NonPeriodicTasks:1] 2013-06-03 18:17:05,374 SSTableDeletingTask.java (line 72) Unable to delete /raid0/cassandra/data/<KEYSPACE>/<CF>/<KEYSPACE>-<CF>-ic-19-Data.db (it will be removed on server restart; we'll also retry after GC)

This is on the DataStax EC2 AMI in a two-node cluster.  After deleting 
1,000 rows from a CF with 20,000 rows, the DB becomes slow, and I'm trying 
to figure out why.  Could this error message be pointing at a proximate 
cause?


jrf