If you start with DEBUG logging (or just enable logging for SSTableReader) you
will get some more information on what's taking time at startup.
If you want to dig a little further take a look at the iostat and cpu load.
During startup a thread is created for each core on the machine and used to
Hi,
I have 2 column families with approx 50 GB of compressed data (~150GB
uncompressed). The data resides in a keyspace replicated 2-way, hosted by
a 2-node Cassandra cluster (v1.0.8), both with 74GB RAM and 16 cores.
Key caches are set to 1.0.
I'm noticing that it can take upwards of 15+ minut
