Because the schema is stored in the system tables, you may be seeing some of the recent issues with compaction, particularly: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8635
Upgrade to 2.1.4 and see if it helps (note: there is still https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8860 fixed in not-yet-released 2.1.5). On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Saurabh Sethi <saurabh_se...@symantec.com> wrote: > We have a 3 node cassandra 2.1.2 development cluster on which we > frequently do a lot of keyspace creation and deletion. But after couple of > days, we observed that keyspace creation is taking in order of 4-5 minutes. > > Anyone has any idea what might be causing it? > > FYI, if I run repair, cleanup and compaction, things become fast again. > > Thanks, > Saurabh > -- ----------------- Nate McCall Austin, TX @zznate Co-Founder & Sr. Technical Consultant Apache Cassandra Consulting http://www.thelastpickle.com
