We have had similar issues and upgrading C* to 2.0.x and Java to 1.7 seems to have helped our issues.
2014-02-13 Keith Wright <kwri...@nanigans.com>: > Frank did you ever file a ticket for this issue or find the root cause? I > believe we are seeing the same issues when attempting to bootstrap. > > Thanks > > From: Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> > Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" <user@cassandra.apache.org> > Date: Monday, February 3, 2014 at 6:10 PM > To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" <user@cassandra.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Intermittent long application pauses on nodes > > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Benedict Elliott Smith < > belliottsm...@datastax.com> wrote: > >> >> It's possible that this is a JVM issue, but if so there may be some >> remedial action we can take anyway. There are some more flags we should >> add, but we can discuss that once you open a ticket. If you could include >> the strange JMX error as well, that might be helpful. >> > > It would be appreciated if you could inform this thread of the JIRA ticket > number, for the benefit of the community and google searchers. :) > > =Rob >