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The DateTieredCompactionStrategy is a good choice for HintedHandoff so that we reduce the compaction load we incur when users build up hints. Albert P Tobey and others have tried the following patch in various setups and have seen significantly less load from hint compaction.
https://gist.github.com/tobert/c069af27e3f8840d137d
Setting the time window to 10 minutes has shown additional improvement.
[~krummas] do you have any feedback about this idea and/or settings?