Hi
Thanks for your reply. Was expecting something along those lines.
My production setup don't justify more than two physical nodes for that
caching feature.
So I guess that my options with riak are:
1. keep N=2 but add two more physical nodes
2. keep two physical nodes, but set N=3 and hope that all 3 copies of
each partition don't end up on the same physical node
3. ?
Thanks again,
Cedric
On 30/03/2012 20:15, Jared Morrow wrote:
> Cedric,
>
> The problem you are seeing is that the list of vnodes does not spread
> perfectly between physical nodes. So with N=2 on only a 2 node
> cluster, you aren't given assurances that those two copies of data
> will end up on two vnodes owned by different physical nodes. So if
> you have data X on vnode 15 and 18 pretend, those two vnodes might
> both be owned by 192.168.0.21.
>
> If you are running less (or equal) nodes than your N value, all bets
> are off when it comes to testing riak functionality. We suggest that
> you have a physical node count > N +1 to see Riak's true
> capabilities. If you just want to test functionality on a small
> scale, you can use the 'make devrel' setup to run 4 nodes on a single
> machine for testing [1]. Please do not test speed or throughput in
> that setup, but if you are trying to see how 2i works, that's a better
> option than two nodes with N=2.
>
>
> [1] http://wiki.basho.com/Building-a-Development-Environment.html
>
> Hope that helps,
> Jared
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 30, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Cedric Maion wrote:
>
>> Hey there,
>>
>> I'm playing with a two node riak 1.1.1 cluster, but can't figure how to
>> make riak happy with only one node (and the other one failed).
>>
>> My use case is the following:
>> - HTML pages gets stored in the riak cluster (it's used as a page cache)
>> - I'm using secondary indexes to tag those documents
>> - When I need to invalidate some HTML pages, I make a query on those
>> secondary indexes to retrieve the list of keys that needs to be deleted
>> (documents matching a specific tag value)
>>
>> The bucket is configured with
>> {"props":{"n_val":2,"allow_mult":false,"r":1,"w":1,"dw":0,"rw":1}}.
>>
>> Everything is working fine when both node are up and running.
>> However, if I turn one node off, secondary indexes queries returns
>> {error,{error,insufficient_vnodes_available}} errors.
>>
>> I can't find a way to have the cluster converge to a stable state on only
>> one node.
>>
>>
>> (192.168.0.21 is the node that has been turned off, by just stopping riak
>> with /etc/init.d/riak stop)
>>
>>
>> root@192.168.0.51:~# riak-admin member_status
>> Attempting to restart script through sudo -u riak
>> =================================
>> Membership==================================
>> Status Ring Pending Node
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> valid 50.0% -- 'riak@192.168.0.21'
>> valid 50.0% -- 'riak@192.168.0.51'
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Valid:2 / Leaving:0 / Exiting:0 / Joining:0 / Down:0
>>
>>
>> => 192.168.0.21 is not seen as being down, not sure if it's an issue or not
>>
>>
>>
>> root@192.168.0.51:~# riak-admin transfers
>> Attempting to restart script through sudo -u riak
>> Nodes ['riak@192.168.0.21'] are currently down.
>> 'riak@192.168.0.51' waiting to handoff 5 partitions
>>
>>
>> => by creating/reading many keys, I finally get "waiting to handoff 32
>> partitions", which seems OK to me (ring size is 64, so each node should
>> normally own 32).
>> => however, secondary indexes queries always fails, until I turn the failed
>> node ON again.
>>
>>
>> I tried to force "riak-admin down riak@192.168.0.21" from the valid node,
>> but no luck either.
>>
>> Not being able to use secondary indexes while a node is down is a real
>> problem.
>> Is this expected behavior, or what am I missing?
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Cedric
>>
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