agree. It's a good idea to remove as many variables and possible and get to a stable/known state. Use a clean install and a well known client and see if the problems persist.
Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 5/07/2012, at 4:58 PM, Tristan Seligmann wrote: > On Jul 4, 2012 2:02 PM, "Vasileios Vlachos" <vasileiosvlac...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Any ideas what could be causing strange message lengths? > > One cause of this that I've seen is a client using unframed Thrift transport > while the server expects framed, or vice versa. I suppose a similar cause > could be something that is not a Thrift client at all mistakenly connecting > to Cassandra's Thrift port. >