> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1417
[snip, row cache saving only keys] > Is this the intentional implementation? Are there any reason not to > just the entire row to disk to allow for faster startup? Intentional (in the sense of "not a mistake"), but see: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1625 The reason your start-up took a lot of time is that reading in the values associated with the keys is entirely seek-bound (except in certain edge cases). Eliminating the need for seek-bound I/O to populate the row cache was the purpose of filing 1625. In practice, you do have to consider the expected start-up time when sizing your row cache. -- / Peter Schuller
