Re: Riak dynamic cluster HOWTO

2012-01-11 Thread Mark Phillips
Hey Jeff, Sadly I'm just now getting around to working my way through this guide on account of the post-holiday catchup game... Firstly, great job on this. This clearly wasn't a small undertaking. Thanks for taking the time to write and publish it. One piece of initial feedback - On the first page

Re: Riak dynamic cluster HOWTO

2012-01-11 Thread Mark Phillips
Hey Jeff, Sadly I'm just now getting around to working my way through this guide on account of the post-holiday catchup game... Firstly, great job on this. This clearly wasn't a small undertaking. Thanks for taking the time to write and publish it. One piece of initial feedback - On the first page

Re: Riak dynamic cluster HOWTO

2012-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Eliasen
Yeah, that goal changed over time and I forgot to update the front page. I realized I didn't have enough resources to handle the overhead of that many machines (open file handles, RAM resources, etc) and reduced my expectation to about 10 machines, with a more realistic probability of 5-6. In this

Re: Riak dynamic cluster HOWTO

2012-01-11 Thread Mark Phillips
Hey Jeff, Sadly I'm just now getting around to working my way through this guide on account of the post-holiday catchup game... Firstly, great job on this. This clearly wasn't a small undertaking. Thanks for taking the time to write and publish it. One piece of initial feedback - On the first page

Re: Riak dynamic cluster HOWTO

2012-01-06 Thread Jeffrey Eliasen
I haven't, but that's a good idea. I will get that up in a couple days. jeff On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Jeff Thompson wrote: > Hey Jeff, (great name!) > > Have you posted the specs for the low cost/power nodes you've built? If > not, would be interested in doing that? (parts, cost, anythin

Re: Riak dynamic cluster HOWTO

2012-01-06 Thread Jeff Thompson
Hey Jeff, (great name!) Have you posted the specs for the low cost/power nodes you've built? If not, would be interested in doing that? (parts, cost, anything interesting) I noticed in your Future Steps section ( http://jeff.jke.net/2011/12/14/future-steps ) that you were looking to add an admini

Riak dynamic cluster HOWTO

2012-01-06 Thread Jeffrey Eliasen
I spent the Christmas break setting up a Riak cluster and documenting all the steps. I've got a howto/tutorial set up at http://jeff.jke.net/2011/10/02/setting-nosql-cluster that will walk you through the steps. In particular, I aimed for low cost and low power. Each node in the cluster boots off