nodetool settimeout

Temporarily sets the timeout for the given timeout type by overriding the corresponding setting in cassandra.yaml:

To persist the setting, change the cassandra.yaml setting.

To discover the current timeouts, use nodetool gettimeout.

Synopsis

nodetool [<connection_options>] settimeout
[--] timeout_type <timeout_in_ms>

Definition

The short- and long-form options are comma-separated.

Connection options

-h, --host hostname

The hostname or IP address of a remote node or nodes. When omitted, the default is the local machine.

-p, --port jmx_port

The JMX port number.

-pw, --password jmxpassword

The JMX password for authenticating with secure JMX. If a password is not provided, you are prompted to enter one.

-pwf, --password-file jmx_password_filepath

The filepath to the file that stores JMX authentication credentials.

-u, --username jmx_username

The username for authenticating with secure JMX.

Command arguments

--

Separates an option from an argument that could be mistaken for an option.

timeout_in_ms

Time to wait in milliseconds.

0: Disables socket streaming timeout.

timeout_type

The timeout type.

  • read

  • range

  • write

  • counterwrite

  • cascontention

  • truncate

  • streamingsocket

  • misc (general rpc_timeout_in_ms)

Examples

Set write timeout for 15 ms

nodetool settimeout write 15

Disable trucate timeout

nodetool settimeout truncate 0

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