On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:19 PM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote: >> There is always num_tokens tokens in the ring. >> >> > I got this wrong. > Each node *does* have num_tokens tokens. > >> With N nodes, the ring is divided into N*num_tokens. Correct? > > Yes > > In other words it is cluster wide parameter. Correct? > > Yes.
Actually, num_tokens is a per node setting. It might make sense for example to assign different numbers of tokens in a cluster with heterogeneous hardware, but I would urge caution as there is currently no way post facto way to increase or decrease a nodes token count. -- Eric Evans Acunu | http://www.acunu.com | @acunu
