Did you have a chance to look at the basho_bench errors?

On Feb 23, 2013, at 2:35 AM, Richard Shaw <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> I sympathise with R, i'm going to write an installation guide to go on the 
> site.
> 
> In regards to the error, please paste in the contents of you vm.args file 
> from the target node
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:05 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Here is the output from one configuration try:
>> 
>> 17:00:08.878 [info] Using http target "172.16.33.138":8098 for worker 2
>> 
>> 17:00:08.878 [info] Using pb target "172.16.33.138":8087 for worker 2
>> 
>> 17:00:08.993 [debug] Supervisor basho_bench_sup started 
>> basho_bench_worker:start_link(basho_bench_worker_2, 2) at pid <0.96.0>
>> 
>> 17:00:08.999 [info] Using http target "172.16.33.107":8098 for worker 3
>> 
>> 17:00:09.001 [info] Using pb target "172.16.33.107":8087 for worker 3
>> 
>> 17:00:09.006 [debug] Supervisor basho_bench_sup started 
>> basho_bench_worker:start_link(basho_bench_worker_3, 3) at pid <0.99.0>
>> 
>> 17:00:09.022 [debug] Supervisor net_sup started erl_epmd:start_link() at pid 
>> <0.104.0>
>> 
>> 17:00:09.029 [debug] Supervisor net_sup started auth:start_link() at pid 
>> <0.105.0>
>> 
>> 17:00:09.030 [info] Can't set long node name!
>> Please check your configuration
>> 
>> 
>> 17:00:09.030 [error] Failed to start net_kernel for 
>> basho_bench_measurement_erlangvm: 
>> {shutdown,{child,undefined,net_sup_dynamic,{erl_distribution,start_link,[[basho_bench,longnames]]},permanent,1000,supervisor,[erl_distribution]}}
>> 
>> 
>> There is alot more output but this is the tail end of the output.
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Richard Shaw 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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