On Apr 20, 2012, at 07:40, Jeremy Darling wrote: > Just curious what experiences others have had with hardware and hosting > multi-process Node app stacks using MongoDB (or similar)? So far my testing > has shown that a cluster of smaller (3 - i5's with 8GB Ram and 120GB SSD's) > machines out performs a single massive server (4x4 with 64GB Ram and 120GB > NAS fiber attached storage). This isn't too surprising
It is to me.. why would that be the case? > since node basically allocates a single core per running process, What do you mean? I didn't think node "allocates" anything; I thought *you* allocate node processes by using cluster to start as many of them as is appropriate for the size of your server. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
