We see this behavior as well with 0.6, heap usage graphs look almost identical. The GC is a noticeable bottleneck, we've tried jdku19 and jrockit vm's. It basically kills any kind of soft real time behavior.
From: Masood Mortazavi [mailto:masoodmortaz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 4:15 AM To: u...@cassandra.apache.org; dev@cassandra.apache.org Subject: 0.6 insert performance .... Re: [RELEASE] 0.6.1 I wonder if anyone can use: * Add logging of GC activity (CASSANDRA-813) to confirm this: http://www.slideshare.net/schubertzhang/cassandra-060-insert-throughput - m. On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Eric Evans <eev...@rackspace.com<mailto:eev...@rackspace.com>> wrote: Hot on the trails of 0.6.0 comes our latest, 0.6.1. This stable point release contains a number of important bugfixes[1] and is a painless upgrade from 0.6.0. Enjoy! [1]: http://bit.ly/9NqwAb (changelog) -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com<mailto:eev...@rackspace.com>