riak 1.4.2, bitcask backend: how to avoid file merge at almost the same time on all nodes

Hi. we are load testing Riak 1.4.2 in the amazon cloud (8 nodes: c1.xlarge + 1 ebs) at the moment and plan to go into production early next year. So far things have been going pretty well and we increased the load and the total time of the load tests almost weekly. The current target is a 24

Using /etc/hosts entry and not ip in configuration files ..

hi. we are trying to run Riak in the Amazon cloud (using OpsWorks). With every restart of the servers the ip addresses change so using an entry in the /etc/hosts instead of an IP looks like a great idea. Google's answer is:

Using /etc/hosts entry and not ip in configuration files ..

hi. we are trying to run Riak in the Amazon cloud (using OpsWorks). With every restart of the servers the ip addresses change so using an entry in the /etc/hosts instead of an IP looks like a great idea. Google's answer is: