Ignore, found out this seems to be astyanax related as the cassandra-cli is lightning quick.
Dean From: <Hiller>, Nrel <dean.hil...@nrel.gov<mailto:dean.hil...@nrel.gov>> Date: Friday, March 1, 2013 11:18 AM To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Subject: upgrade 1.1.4 to 1.2.2 around 120x performance loss(one node only) I setup a QA system copying our production system which was accidentally SimpleSnitch I found out but we are only in one datacenter right now luckily. I have 4 nodes on 1.1.4 and I ran the following commands to upgrade ONE SINGLE NODE to 1.2.2 #on the node itself nodetool drain nodetool -h localhost -p 7199 snapshot databus5 -t 1.2.2a #AS ROOT... rm /opt/cassandra ln -s /opt/cassandra-1.2.2 /opt/cassandra #BACK to cassandra(it won't run as root anyways as not in path) cassandra -Dcassandra.join_ring=false -Dcassandra.start_rpc=false nodetool upgradesstables databus5 Kill {pid} #take cassandra back down Cassandra #start cassandra My web page now takes 2 minutes/120 seconds to return back to me. Is anyone else experiencing this? Thanks, Dean