anchor.diff:  # expressed as a double which represents a percentage.  Thus, a value of
   # 0.2 means Cassandra would continue to prefer the static snitch values
   # until the pinned host was 20% worse than the fastest.
  -dynamic_snitch_badness_threshold: 0.1
  +dynamic_snitch_badness_threshold: <%= @dynamic_snitch_badness_threshold %>
   
   # request_scheduler -- Set this to a class that implements
   # RequestScheduler, which will schedule incoming client requests
  
positive.code: 
  # controls how often to perform the more expensive part of host score
  # calculation
  dynamic_snitch_update_interval_in_ms: 100 
  # controls how often to reset all host scores, allowing a bad host to
  # possibly recover
  dynamic_snitch_reset_interval_in_ms: 600000
  # if set greater than zero and read_repair_chance is < 1.0, this will allow
  # 'pinning' of replicas to hosts in order to increase cache capacity.
  # The badness threshold will control how much worse the pinned host has to be
  
negative.code: # Disabling it will result in larger (but fewer) network packets being sent,
  # reducing overhead from the TCP protocol itself, at the cost of increasing
  # latency if you block for cross-datacenter responses.
  inter_dc_tcp_nodelay: <%= @inter_dc_tcp_nodelay %>
  
  # This setting has been removed from default configuration. It makes new
  # (non-seed) nodes automatically migrate the right data to themselves. When
  