A maybe long shot, have you deleted the cassandra-topology.properties file since you are using GossipingPropertyFileSnitch? I am sure I have seen a ticket about problems caused in some cases if that file stays around. I removed it from all the nodes and non-stop compaction stopped (after a proper restart - not rolling).
On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Romain Hardouin <romainh...@yahoo.fr.invalid > wrote: > Hi, > > It might be useful to enable compaction logging with log_all subproperties. > > Best, > > Romain > > Le vendredi 8 septembre 2017 à 00:15:19 UTC+2, kurt greaves < > k...@instaclustr.com> a écrit : > > > Might be worth turning on debug logging for that node and when the > compaction kicks off and CPU skyrockets send through the logs. >