How does riak scale horizontally

2013-11-30 Thread Suman Kumar
Hi, I have read through many articles about riak but I am little confused how does riak scale when adding a node. Assume I am having 5nodes having n_val of 3 with 8gb Ram and 100gb ebs for each node and they have reached the capacity of ram and harddisk now I am planning to add one more node to the

Re: Write Timeout

2013-11-30 Thread Kelly McLaughlin
Andrew, If you have not already done so, try increasing the pb_backlog setting in the Riak app.config to 256 and see that helps. You will need to restart Riak for it to take effect. Details about setting that are here: http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/ops/advanced/configs/configuration-files/#ap

Re: How does riak scale horizontally

2013-11-30 Thread Jeremiah Peschka
A small portion of the data will be moved to the new node. Specifically virtual nodes will be shuffled to assure even data distribution in the cluster. This is in the docs at [1] [1]: http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/ops/running/nodes/adding-removing/#The-Node-Join-Process --- sent from a tiny p

Re: riak disk usage

2013-11-30 Thread Hector Castro
Hello Silasi, Can you please explain the process you're using to add the image/video data into Riak CS? Are you overwriting objects or using multipart upload? -- Hector On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Silasi Stefan wrote: > Hello, > > I'm preparing an evironment for an image/video storage web

Re: riak disk usage

2013-11-30 Thread Silasi Stefan
Thanks for your reply Hector. I'm using the simple python/boto script for upload via the key.set_content_from_file method. Each object has an unique key name. Today, 2 of the nodes are at 100% disk usage after I tried to remove one of them via "riak-admin cluster remove riak@node". I upgraded to t