That's my guess. My colleague is still looking at CPU's so I'm hoping he can get quad core CPU's for the servers.
Thanks Jabbar Azam On 12 April 2013 16:48, Colin Blower <cblo...@barracuda.com> wrote: > If you have not seen it already, checkout the Netflix blog post on their > performance testing of AWS SSD instances. > > > http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/benchmarking-high-performance-io-with.html > > My guess, based on very little experience, is that you will be CPU bound. > > > On 04/12/2013 03:05 AM, Jabbar Azam wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm going to be building a 20 node cassandra cluster in one datacentre. > The spec of the servers will roughly be dual core Celeron CPU, 256 GB SSD, > 16GB RAM and two nics. > > > Has anybody done any performance testing with this setup or have any > gotcha's I should be aware of wrt to the hardware? > > I do realise the CPU is fairly low computational power but I'm going to > assume the system is going to be IO bound hence the RAM and SSD's. > > > Thanks > > Jabbar Azam > > > > -- > *Colin Blower* > *Software Engineer* > Barracuda Networks Inc. > +1 408-342-5576 (o) >
