It's a bug: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1079
-ryan On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:16 AM, James Golick <jamesgol...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I first brought this cluster online, the storage-conf.xml file had a > few cache capacities set. Since then, we've completely changed how we use > cassandra's caching, and no longer use any of the caches I setup in the > original configuration. > I'm finding that cassandra doesn't want to keep my new cache settings. I can > disable those caches with setcachecapacity, check cfstats and see that they > are disabled, but within a few minutes, cfstats is reporting that the caches > are back. > Anything I can do?