On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Michel Segel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Actually if you have 2 4 core CPUs xeon chips... You will become i/o bound > with 4 drives. > The rule of thumb tends to be 2 disks per core so you would want 16 drives > per node... At least in theory.
> 24 1TB drives would be interesting, but I'm not sure what sort of problems > you could expect to encounter until you had to expand the cluster... So I can change the CPU configuration to 2 6 core xeons. What problem do you mean we will encount when expand the cluster, too much data to move? > Sent from a remote device. Please excuse any typos... > > Mike Segel > > On Apr 26, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Xiaobo Gu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> People say a balanced server configration is as following: >> >> 2 4 Core CPU, 24G RAM, 4 1TB SATA Disks >> >> But we have been used to use storages servers with 24 1T SATA Disks, >> we are wondering will Hadoop be CPU bounded if this kind of servers >> are used. Does anybody have experiences with hadoop running on servers >> with so many disks. >> >> Regards, >> >> Xiaobo G >> >
