Hey Jeff, A rough (but pretty good) estimation is 1GB per 1M blocks. So if you have files that average 1.2GB each and you have a dfs.block.size of 128MB, then it would take roughly 10 blocks to store that file, and you would be able to store 100k of those files in 1GB of RAM.
Out of 8GB, I'd assume 7GB is usable for HDFS metadata. The remaining 1GB is for operational overhead -- this is probably generous but it's better to over-estimate when you're capacity planning. Cheers, - Patrick On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Jeff Zhang <zjf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to estimate how many files I can store in the my name node > with 8G memory, Is there any estimation method ? > > > > -- > Best Regards > > Jeff Zhang >
