It depends. You probably won't get a linear drop in heap size by halving RAM and amount of data on a server. What's your current heap use like now?
Regards, Mark Walkom Infrastructure Engineer Campaign Monitor email: [email protected] web: www.campaignmonitor.com On 25 May 2014 21:36, Ran Franco <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Currently I'm using ES cluster with 8 nodes (m3.xlarge machines from > Amazon) > These nodes contain - > Ram - 15.0 GB > CPU - 13 (4 core x 3.25 unit) > > I wanted to know if i'll get better performance whether I'll use 16 nodes > but weaker (m3.large) > Ram - 7.5 GB > CPU - 6.5 (2 core x 3.25 unit) > > What is preferred? a bigger cluster with weaker machines? or smaller > cluster with stronger machines? > > > Thanks ! > Ran > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/1ebe28b7-fa45-495f-94d8-400976b75ae5%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/1ebe28b7-fa45-495f-94d8-400976b75ae5%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624YX%3D9Z9ZSWQb2wEdXaaSbucBz0zdccnHaocGtAXYo3ABg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
