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On Feb 22, 2013, at 4:34 PM, Richard Shaw <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
> 
> Always good practise to reply to the mailing list so others can benefit from 
> the content
> 
> basho bench is the best place to start, If you have a working cluster or even 
> a working single node, follow the benchmarking guide[0] 
> 
> Please let me see some of the specific errors you're having and we can help 
> resolve them.
> 
> Outside of basho bench, I recommend benchmarking the raw performance of your 
> VM, you can do this using a variety of tools like iostat, iperf or a test 
> suite like Phoronix test suite, a very comprehensive FOSS tool[1] look at the 
> `aio` test
> 
> I'd also recommend benchmarking each time you make a configuration change to 
> really understand how effective that change was
> 
> [0]http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/cookbooks/Benchmarking/
> [1]http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Kevin Burton <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> That was my next question. I have tried to get basho_bench to work but so 
>> far have been unsuccessful. If you have a simple "hello world" sample config 
>> I would greatly appreciate it. I have tried a bunch of configs in the 
>> examples directory but get met with one error or another. 
>> Other than that I have just timed various client driver calls. Mostly random 
>> reads some writes.
>> 
>> On Feb 22, 2013, at 3:48 PM, Richard Shaw <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Kevin,
>>> 
>>> What kind of benchmarking have you done on your VMs and what did you use ?
>>> 
>>> Kind Regards
>>> 
>>> Richard
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Kevin Burton <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> Ok I suspected as much. This will give me more ammo when requesting more 
>>>> resources. Thank you.
>>>> Now, back to the original question. Given that the physical hardware is 
>>>> taken care of. What parameters are most important when tuning a cluster. 
>>>> Again for arguments sake assume the same 4 node cluster with a read-write 
>>>> ratio of about 75 percent.
>>>> 
>>>> On Feb 21, 2013, at 8:26 PM, Alexander Sicular <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> It can't be said enough times but the number one thing you can do to 
>>>>> ensure that you are getting true performance (not to mention redundancy) 
>>>>> is to use different physical hardware for each of your nodes. Under no 
>>>>> circumstances should you have more than one VM (one logical node in a 
>>>>> Riak cluster) on the same physical hardware. Also, use multiple 
>>>>> connections/threads/parallelism/whatever on client side and be sure to 
>>>>> hit all the nodes in the cluster haproxy roundrobin-esque when writing to 
>>>>> Riak. Everything else is in the noise.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Alexander Sicular
>>>>> 
>>>>> @siculars
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Feb 21, 2013, at 9:04 PM, Kevin Burton <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> There each has about 20-30GB of disk space.  They each are a VM so I am 
>>>>>> not sure how to specify the CPU. They all seem to be 64 bit Intel 
>>>>>> processors but I could tell you the clock speed. The network is 1Gb 
>>>>>> Ethernet.
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> From: Sean Carey [mailto:[email protected]] 
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 7:59 PM
>>>>>> To: Kevin Burton
>>>>>> Cc: [email protected]
>>>>>> Subject: Re: Tuning a Riak cluster.
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> Kevin,
>>>>>> Disk and CPU, and Network?
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Sean Carey
>>>>>> @densone
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 20:31, Kevin Burton wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> I have a cluster of 4 machines (4 Linux VM machines each allocated about 
>>>>>> 1 Gb of memory – yea I know it isn’t a lot). I would like to get some 
>>>>>> pointers on getting the fastest query time possible given these meager 
>>>>>> resources. Thank you.
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