Yes , you can disable gossip and disable binary to cut off All traffic but process like compactions can still continue .
Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 11, 2017, at 9:21 AM, Biscuit Ninja <cassandra@biscuit.ninja> wrote: > > We run an 8 node Cassandra v2.1.16 cluster (4 nodes in two discrete > datacentres) and we're currently investigating a problem where by restarting > Cassandra on a node resulted in the filling of Eden/Survivor/Old and frequent > GCs. > > http://imgur.com/a/OR1dk > > This hammered reads from our application tier (writes seemed okay) and until > we determine what the root cause is, we'd like to be able to start Cassandra > with gossip disabled. > > Is this possible? > Thanks > .bN