On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Mark Greene <green...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was under the impression from what I've seen talked about on this list > (perhaps I'm wrong here) that given the write throughput of one node in a > cluster (again assuming each node has a given throughput and the same > config) that you would simply multiply that throughput by the number of > nodes you had, giving you the total throughput for the entire ring (like you > said this is somewhat artificial). The main benefit being that adding > capacity was as simple as adding more nodes to the ring with no degradation. > So by your math, 100 nodes with each node getting 5k wps, I would assume the > total capacity is 500k wps. But perhaps I've misunderstood some key > concepts. Still a novice myself ;-)
If the replication factor is 2, then everything is written twice. So your throughput is cut in half. Paul Prescod
