I know some people on IRC are using containers (docker), we went down the
virtualisation path instead.
Both work fine.

Regards,
Mark Walkom

Infrastructure Engineer
Campaign Monitor
email: [email protected]
web: www.campaignmonitor.com


On 30 January 2014 09:03, Nikolas Everett <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Josh Harrison <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Other than the resource footprint, is there any reason we should avoid
>> running multiple node instances of a cluster on the same machine, assuming
>> all the shard awareness stuff is in place to keep all the copies of a given
>> shard from being stored on those nodes that are all resident on a single
>> physical box?
>> Basically, if I had a cluster of, say six machines with 512GB of ram a
>> piece, is it reasonable to run six instances of ES per machine and 30GB of
>> swap per instance allocated, resulting in a 36 node cluster with and a bit
>> over a terabyte of memory footprint across the cluster?
>>
>>
>>
> So far as I've heard this is sensible if heap is your bottleneck.
> Obviously it doesn't help is disk space, iops, or cpu are your bottleneck.
> The deb doesn't support it without modification.  Now you know all about
> the subject that I do :)
>
> Nik
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