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

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