Nathan Milford has a post about taking a node down http://blog.milford.io/2011/11/rolling-upgrades-for-cassandra/
The only thing I would do differently would be turn off thrift first. Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 27/02/2012, at 4:35 AM, Edward Capriolo wrote: > If you are doing a planned maintenance you can flush first as well > ensuring the that the commit logs will not be as large. > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Radim Kolar <h...@sendmail.cz> wrote: >>> if a node goes down, it will take longer for commitlog replay. >> >> commit log replay time is insignificant. most time during node startup is >> wasted on index sampling. Index sampling here runs for about 15 minutes.
