On Jun 26, 2012, at 9:37 AM, Jeremiah Peschka <jeremiah.pesc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Scale out - zerg rush your data. > > Many smaller systems means that, in theory, you're going to be affected less > by poor performance of any single instance. > > When you're building out instances in EC2 always remember that the largest > instance in a class of instances is most likely to be the only VM on that > server. So, an m2.4xlarge will probably be the only instance on that VM host. > The biggest downside to shared VMs is that you're also sharing a 1gigabit > ethernet connection. > > If you're okay with the possibility of sharing your connectivity with other > people, then don't worry about instance sizes and just keep scaling out. > > If you do worry about what other jerks are doing, then try to size your > instances so that you're the only person on that piece of hardware. > Basically, the instances you're looking for are m1.xlarge, m2.4xlarge, > c1.xlarge, cc1.4xlarge, cc2.8xlarge. The upside is that you can also hog all > of the instance storage and take advantage of local storage AND get the > redundancy that Riak brings to the table - EBS volumes are RAIDed behind the > scenes. Thanks! That helps a lot! Eric Anderson Co-Founder http://CopperEgg.com > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Eric Anderson <ander...@copperegg.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > Question about EC2 (or scale in general): i'm building a decent cluster, to > handle 15-20k inserts/s and 5-10k gets per second. (for a rough idea of what > I'm doing). I've been playing with a 15-node cluster of m2.xlarge systems, > but I am wondering what is better: more small systems or less larger systems? > > > Any recommendations/hints/tricks would be a huge help! > > Eric > > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > >
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