Maybe you could try to adjust the setting "cassandraThriftSocketTimeout" of hector. https://github.com/rantav/hector/wiki/User-Guide
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Philippe <watche...@gmail.com> wrote: > Quick followup. > I have pushed the RPC timeout to 30s. Using Hector, I'm doing 1 thread > doing batches of 10 mutates at a time so that's even slower than when I was > doing 16 threads in parallel doing non-batched mutations. > After a couple hundred execute() calls, I get a timeout for every node; I > have a 15 second grace period between retries. tpstats indicate no pendings > on any of the nodes. I never recover from that > > I then set the batch size to one and it seems to work a lot better. The > only difference I note is that the Mutator.execute() method returns a result > than sometimes has a null host and 0 microsecond time in the batch sizes of > ten but never in batch sizes of 1. > > > I'm stumped ! Any ideas ? > > Thanks >