+1 bump. We are experiencing the same issue
> On Jul 25, 2017, at 08:02, Anshul Rathore <anshulrathor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > We recently upgraded to cassandra 3.10 , one of issue which we are facing is > cassandra node restarts are taking very long times. > > On checking the debug logs, it appears cassandra saves all prepared > statements ever executed in system.prepared_statements table, and on startup > tries to load all the prepared statement on startup and somtimes takes hours > to restart or even worse goes in gc cycle and never restarts > > I can see there are millions of prepared statements , so currently we > trucating system.prepared_statements before restart of node. > > Also the large number of prepared statemets are due to some tables have over > 100 columns , so number of permuations of query statements are huge. > > Anybody has any idea on this , how to avoid or fix this ? > > Thanks, > Anshul