On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Elliot Finley <efinley.li...@gmail.com>wrote:
> What are the penalties for having them? > Vnodes are basically nodes, so the same penalties you would get from a huge number of nodes... folks have worked on optimizing the worst aspects of this, but the reality is still that a node with 256 token ranges is doing something more complicated than a node with 1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6127 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5220 =Rob