diff --git a/contrail_provisioning/database/setup.py b/contrail_provisioning/database/setup.py
index 0935501e..73bc3755 100755
--- a/contrail_provisioning/database/setup.py
+++ b/contrail_provisioning/database/setup.py
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ def fixup_cassandra_config_files(self):
         self.replace_in_file(conf_file, 'rpc_address: ', 'rpc_address: ' + listen_ip)
         self.replace_in_file(conf_file, '# num_tokens: 256', 'num_tokens: 256')
         self.replace_in_file(conf_file, 'initial_token:', '# initial_token:')
+        self.replace_in_file(conf_file, 'compaction_throughput_mb_per_sec: 16', 'compaction_throughput_mb_per_sec: 96')
         if self._args.cassandra_user is not None:
             self.replace_in_file(conf_file,'authenticator: AllowAllAuthenticator','authenticator: PasswordAuthenticator')
         if data_dir: