Hi Christian,

thanks a lot. Yes I talked about eLevelDB (forgot to write it into the
mail). This helps me a lot. I already thought to use 256 as ringsize
but wasn't 100% sure.

Cheers,
Simon

On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:23:56 +0000
Christian Dahlqvist <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Simon,
> 
> By cache size, I am assuming you are referring to the leveldb internal cache. 
> Is this correct?
> 
> The arguably most important parameter in your configuration is the ring size. 
> Defining an appropriate ring size is very important as it can't change later 
> on and determines how far you can scale. It is recommended that you allow for 
> at about 10 partitions per physical node 
> (http://docs.basho.com/riak/1.3.0/references/appendices/Cluster-Capacity-Planning/#Ring-Size-Number-of-Partitions),
>  which means that if you are preparing for a cluster of around 20 nodes, you 
> should probably use 256 partitions.
> 
> At the moment we do not recommend tuning the eleveldb cache_size at all, so 
> it would be best to leave it at the default value.
> 
> With an n_val of 3, Riak will store every record on 3 consecutive vnodes in 
> the ring. The case where multiple copies may end up on less than 3 different 
> physical servers primarily applies to cases where there are less than 4 nodes 
> in the cluster as nodes will repeat around the ring wrap around point.This is 
> one of the reasons we recommend using at least 5 nodes in the cluster.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Christian
> 
> 
> On 28 Jan 2013, at 15:47, "Effenberg, Simon" <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > we want to save plenty of mails in riak which are in average 14k big. Our 
> > cluster will become between 10 to 20 nodes so the question is: what is 
> > better, having more partitions but each has less cache or is it the other 
> > way around so having less partitions with more cache size?
> > 
> > Also with an n_val of 3 it is always said, that there is no guarantee for 
> > having this on 3 physical nodes but also that it should be distributed 
> > evenly. What does it mean? Is there any calculation I can do to get a 
> > feeling how often 3 replicas are only on 2 nodes? Or can you say: with 6 
> > nodes and an n_val of 3 it should be the case that almost 99.9 percent is 
> > distributed over different physical nodes?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Simon
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