Long query times when node down

[sahlex]

Hi there.

I have a solandra cluster (based on apache-cassandra 1.1) on 5 nodes with replication factor of 3 for keyspace 'L'. This should give me high availability for solr queries, right?

However, if I put one node down, the first minutes after the node went down I have very poor query response times of 8 to 10 seconds. Sometime even returning after 30 seconds!

Can you explain this? Is this by design or am I doing something wrong?

Best regards,

Alexander.