Re: Impact of adding nodes to cluster

2014-04-24 Thread John Pyeatt
Leave the RF at 3. Especially since you use write ALL consistency. It's actually a really bad idea to have your RF set to the same value as the number of nodes you have. If one of your nodes goes down, your writes will fail. In fact I would suggest leaving your RF at 3 and set read and write consi

Impact of adding nodes to cluster

2014-04-24 Thread Katriel Traum
Hello list, I have a cluster of 3 nodes with RF=3. The cluster load is daily bulk write/delete/compact, and read the rest of the time. For better read performance, and to make sure data is 100% consistent, we write with "ALL" and read "ONE", stopping the write process if there is a problem. My pr