Ya, I would probably say more vm's mean less vnodes per vm. I would most likely 
go in that direction...

-Alexander Sicular

@siculars

On Dec 5, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Ken Perkins wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> We're seeing enough thrashing and low-memory on our production ring that 
> we've decided to upgrade our hardware. The real question is should we scale 
> up or out.
> 
> Currently our ring is 512 partitions. We know that it's a sub-optimal size 
> but we can't easily solve that now. We're currently running a search-heavy 
> app on 5 8GB VMs. I'm debating between moving the VMs up to 16GB, or adding a 
> few more 8GB VMs.
> 
> Some of the talk in #riak has pushed me towards adding more machines (thus 
> lowering the per node number of partitions) but I wanted to do a quick sanity 
> check here with folks that it's better than scaling up my current machines.
> 
> Thanks!
> Ken Perkins
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