What clients are the scripts using ? This sounds like something that should be handled in the client.
I would worry about holding a long running connection to a single node. There are several situations where the correct behaviour for a client is to kill a connection and connect to another node. Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 26/05/2012, at 12:11 AM, Victor Blaga wrote: > Hi Dave, > > Thank you for your answer. > > 2012/5/25 Dave Brosius <dbros...@mebigfatguy.com> > What version are you using? > > I am using version 1.1.0 > > It might be related to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4052 > > Indeed the Issue you suggested goes into the direction of my problem. > However, things are a little bit more complex. I used the cassandra-cli just > for this example, although I'm getting this behavior from other clients (I'm > using python and ruby scripts). Basically I'm modifying the schema through > the ruby script and I'm trying to query and insert data through the python > script. Both of the scripts are meant to be on forever (sort of daemons) and > thus they establish once at start a connection to the Cassandra which is kept > alive. > > I can see from the comments on the issue that keeping a long-lived connection > to the Cluster might not be ideal and it would probably be better to > reconnect upon executing a set of queries.