Thanks Erick, that confirms my suspicion. Cheers!
On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 8:55 PM Erick Ramirez <erick.rami...@datastax.com> wrote: > C* 3.0 added a new algorithm that optimised the token allocation > (CASSANDRA-7032) [1] with allocate_tokens_for_keyspace in cassandra.yaml > (originally allocate_tokens_keyspace but renamed) [2]. > > Apart from that, there's no real change to how num_tokens work. What > really changed is the philosophy on 256 being a bad default operationally. > The new proposed default is 16 (CASSANDRA-13701). [3] > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7032 > [2] > https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/36d0f55d46ac0edb5a4f140c7993c6d207605fe7 > [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13701 >