Hi,
1) Actual Cassandra 2.1.3, it was upgraded from 2.1.0 (suggested by Al
Tobey from DataStax)
7) minimal reads (usually none, sometimes few)
those two points keep me repeating an anwser I got. First where did you
get 2.1.3 from? Maybe I missed it, I will have a look. But if it is
2.1.2 whis is the latest released version, that version has many bugs -
most of them I got kicked by while testing 2.1.2. I got many problems
with compactions not beeing triggred on column families not beeing read,
compactions and repairs not beeing completed. See
https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=user@cassandra.apache.org&q=subject:%22Re%3A+Compaction+failing+to+trigger%22&o=newest&f=1
https://www.mail-archive.com/user%40cassandra.apache.org/msg40768.html
Apart from that, how are those both datacenters connected? Maybe there
is a bottleneck.
Also do you have ntp up and running on all nodes to keep all clocks in
thight sync?
Note: I'm no expert (yet) - just sharing my 2 cents.
Cheers,
Roland