Random server restarts, swap and moving nodes to new hardware

Hello everyone, We've got a very interesting problem. We're hosting our 5-node cluster on EC2 running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) Server 64-bit using m2.xlarge instance types, and over the past 5 days we've had two EC2 servers randomly restart on us. We've chec

Re: Random server restarts, swap and moving nodes to new hardware

Jeff, We highly recommend you upgrade to 10.10 or later. 10.04 has some known problems when running under Xen (especially on EC2) -- in some cases under load, the network interface will break, making the node temporarily inaccessible. When you do upgrade, the simplest way (if possible) would be t

Re: Random server restarts, swap and moving nodes to new hardware

Hey Sean, Thanks very much for the reply. I'll certainly try going to 10.10 with the upgrade, that's good info. Re EBS: were you saying to attach the EBS volume to the new node and use the EBS volume as the data volume? We had been using EBS as a backup volume, but using ephemeral storage for t

Re: Random server restarts, swap and moving nodes to new hardware

Jeff, That should be fine. I assumed you were using EBS as your data volume because most people we talk to do (for better or worse). On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Jeff Pollard wrote: > Hey Sean, > > Thanks very much for the reply. I'll certainly try going to 10.10 with the > upgrade, that's

Riak memory usage higher than expected

We're utilizing Riak 14.2 and we're seeing higher memory consumption than we expect. We're running on a 4 node cluster with each node housing 32gb of memory and are utilizing bitcask with a 3x write replication factor. We're seeing faster growth than we expect and also seeing weird bounces update