I use <RpcTimeoutInMillis>30000</RpcTimeoutInMillis>
in storage-conf.xml, and for the most part that makes the timeouts go away. My application would rather wait 30 seconds if needed, since it would otherwise retry. YMMV. I hear that Cassandra 0.5 will be better at avoiding the timeouts. Tim Freeman Email: tim.free...@hp.com<mailto:tim.free...@hp.com> Desk in Palo Alto: (650) 857-2581 Home: (408) 774-1298 Cell: (408) 348-7536 (No reception business hours Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday; call my desk instead.) From: mobiledream...@gmail.com [mailto:mobiledream...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 12:26 PM To: cassandra-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException: Operation timed out - received only 0 responses from . this error keeps coming up... any ideas on how to avoid this error? On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:25 PM, <mobiledream...@gmail.com<mailto:mobiledream...@gmail.com>> wrote: Can you plase tell what this error is ? ERROR - error writing key ruske java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException: Operation timed out - received only 0 responses from . at org.apache.cassandra.service.QuorumResponseHandler.get(QuorumResponseHandler.java:88) at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageProxy.insertBlocking(StorageProxy.java:164) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraServer.doInsert(CassandraServer.java:468) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraServer.batch_insert(CassandraServer.java:448) at org.apache.cassandra.service.Cassandra$Processor$batch_insert.process(Cassandra.java:854) at org.apache.cassandra.service.Cassandra$Processor.process(Cassandra.java:627) at org.apache.thrift.server.TThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(TThreadPoolServer.java:253) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Errors -- Bidegg worlds best auction site http://bidegg.com