Re: hardware sizing for cassandra

2014-09-09 Thread James Briggs
BA. Available in San Jose area or remote. From: Robert Coli To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 2:44 PM Subject: Re: hardware sizing for cassandra On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Russell Bradberry wrote: Because R

Re: hardware sizing for cassandra

2014-09-09 Thread Robert Coli
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Russell Bradberry wrote: > Because RAM is expensive and the JVM heap is limited to 8gb. While you do >> get benefit out of using extra RAM as page cache, it's often not cost >> efficient to do so > > > Again, this is so use-case dependent. I have met several people

Re: hardware sizing for cassandra

2014-09-09 Thread Russell Bradberry
> > Because RAM is expensive and the JVM heap is limited to 8gb. While you do > get benefit out of using extra RAM as page cache, it's often not cost > efficient to do so Again, this is so use-case dependent. I have met several people that run small nodes with fat ram to get it all in memory to s

Re: hardware sizing for cassandra

2014-09-09 Thread Russell Bradberry
Paolo > > > > > Paolo Crosato > Software engineer/Custom Solutions > > > ____________ > Da: Chris Lohfink > Inviato: martedì 9 settembre 2014 21.26

Re: hardware sizing for cassandra

2014-09-09 Thread Robert Coli
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Rahul Neelakantan wrote: > Why not more than 32gb of RAM/node? > Because RAM is expensive and the JVM heap is limited to 8gb. While you do get benefit out of using extra RAM as page cache, it's often not cost efficient to do so. =Rob

RE: hardware sizing for cassandra

2014-09-09 Thread Arindam Barua
12:53 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: RE: hardware sizing for cassandra Every node should have at least 4 cores, with a maximum of 8. Memory shouldn't be higher than 32g, 16gb is good for a start. Every node should be a phisical machine, not a virtual one, or at least a virtual mac

Re: hardware sizing for cassandra

2014-09-09 Thread Rahul Neelakantan
ohfink > Inviato: martedì 9 settembre 2014 21.26 > A: user@cassandra.apache.org > Oggetto: Re: hardware sizing for cassandra > > It depends. Ultimately your load is low enough a single node can probably > handle it so you kinda want a "minimum" cluster. Different pe

RE: hardware sizing for cassandra

2014-09-09 Thread Paolo Crosato
tions Da: Chris Lohfink Inviato: martedì 9 settembre 2014 21.26 A: user@cassandra.apache.org Oggetto: Re: hardware sizing for cassandra It depends. Ultimately your load is low enough a single node can probably handle it so you kinda want a "minimum" cluster. Different people

Re: hardware sizing for cassandra

2014-09-09 Thread Chris Lohfink
It depends. Ultimately your load is low enough a single node can probably handle it so you kinda want a "minimum" cluster. Different people have different thoughts on what this means - I would recommend 5-6 nodes with a 3 replication factor. (say m1.xlarge, or c3.2xlarge striped ephemerals, I

Re: hardware sizing for cassandra

2014-09-09 Thread Nate Payne
I would also love to see any resources that are shared describing best practices. If you find something Oleg, or others have some very useful resources outside of what I have found by searching online, I would be very grateful if these were shared in my direction. Cheers. Nate On Tue, Sep 9, 2014

hardware sizing for cassandra

2014-09-09 Thread Oleg Ruchovets
Hi , Where can I find the document with best practices about sizing for cassandra deployment? We have 1000 writes / reads per second. record size 1k. Questions: 1) how many machines do we need? 2) how many ram ,disc size / type? 3) What should be network? I understand that hardware