I just spin up brand new ubuntu 32 or 64 bit instances on my mac pro w 16gb ram. That's all I need for dev and/or prototyping. Obviously load testing is a different animal.
On Mar 28, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Ryan Zezeski wrote: > At my current job I've had the luxury of 4 dell poweredge servers (CentOS, > 128GB, 1-2TB disk, 16-core). > > However, I've been seriously considering either buying some old 1Us and > building my own rack in the basement OR 3 used mac mini's from eBay (I'm > single so I can do stuff like this). The nice thing about mini's is they > travel...plus they're so darn cute. The nice thing about an actual rack is > it is (probably?) closer to real production deployments. > > I'm also tempted to use older hardware just b/c if you can make it more > efficient there then the shinier stuff _should_ automatically get a boost. > Although I supposed stuff like NUMA vs. SMP could bite you? I'm curious to > hear what others think. > > Mark, are you allowed to share any statistics related to the setups of actual > production users? > > -Ryan > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Mark Phillips <m...@basho.com> wrote: > I was going to make this part of today's Recap, but upon further > thinking I concluded that it might deserve its own thread... > > @wmacgyver, @russelldb, and some others exchanged a few messages on > Twitter yesterday about what dev setup they are using for their > respective Riak work. > > wmacgyver's response was: "3 macmini server 2.66ghz with 8gb, raid 1 > 500gb=your own ec2 7.5gb node with 500gb ebs. Every dev has a set." > [1] > > Anyone else care to share their setup? Or have any questions about > what your dev setup should look like? > > Mark > > 1 - http://twitter.com/wmacgyver/statuses/52117875980386304 > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
