What version are you on ? 

>  but we are finding a secondary index is performing slow 
Not sure what you mean here. 

> Are secondary indexes concurrent or single threaded?

Rebuilding a secondary index (via node tool) is a single threaded operation, 
but *all* indexes specified on the command line are built at the same time. 
Rebuilding any one index requires reading all the rows in the CF.

Cheers

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Aaron Morton
Freelance Cassandra Developer
New Zealand

@aaronmorton
http://www.thelastpickle.com

On 23/11/2012, at 8:20 AM, Simon Guindon <simon.guin...@jsitelecom.com> wrote:

> We are importing data from one column family into a second column family via 
> “nodetool refresh” but we are finding a secondary index is performing slow 
> and the machine CPU is pretty much idle. We are trying to bulk load data as 
> fast as possible.
>  
> Are secondary indexes concurrent or single threaded?

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