See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-981
-----Original Message----- From: "Benjamin Black" <b...@b3k.us> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 12:32pm To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Failover and slow nodes Would be interesting to have a snitch that manipulated responses for read nodes based on historical response times. On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:21 AM, James Golick <jamesgol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Our cassandra client fails over if a node times out. Aside from actual > failure, repair and major compactions can make a node so slow that it > affects application performance. > One problem we've run in to is that a node in the midst of repair will still > have requests routed to it internally, even if all clients have failed over. > With a small number of nodes, this has a major impact on the performance of > the overall system. > I'm wondering whether people have any recommendations on tuning this > behaviour. It would be really nice not to route requests to an insanely slow > node.