On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:15 PM, GOEKE, MATTHEW (AG/1000) < [email protected]> wrote:
> I was referring to multiple VM's on a single machine (that you have in > house) for my previous comment and not EC2. FWIW, I would rather see a > single heavy data node than to partition off a single box into multiple > machines unless you are trying to do more on that server than just Hadoop. > Obviously every person / company has their own constraints but if this box > is solely for Hadoop then don't partition it otherwise you will incur a > decent loss in possible map/reduce slots. > > Matt > > OK. Makes sense (I wouldn't try that either, for production). Thanks Liam
