Its quite possible its well tricked out for Linux. My major issue with Linux has been that its TCP/IP stack is nowhere near as scalable as Solaris' for massive numbers of simultaneous connections. But thats probably less of an issue with a Cassandra node then it has been with the game servers I've built.
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Jeffrey Kesselman <jef...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I haven't run Cassandra in production myself, but for other high load >> Java based servers I've had really good scaling success with OpenSolaris. >> In particular I've used Joyent's "SmartOS" which has the additional >> advantage of "bursting" to cover brief periods of exceptional load. >> > > There are a significant number of Linux only optimizations in Cassandra. > Very few people operate production clusters on anything but Linux. > > The most obvious optimization that comes to mind is the use of direct i/o > to avoid blowing out the page cache under various circumstances. > > My approach towards running Cassandra on anything but Linux would be to > try to directly compare performance to the same hardware running Linux. > > =Rob > > -- It's always darkest just before you are eaten by a grue.
