Re: Ideal configuration for given hardware

2010-05-24 Thread Jonathan Ellis
yes, I would do raid1 on 2 commitlog disks and raid10 on the 6 remaining for OS + data On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Aaron McCurry wrote: > Thanks, a lot!  So for RAID 10, is the thought that the node can survive a > single disk failure and keep going until a normal maintain cycle?  Also are >

Re: Ideal configuration for given hardware

2010-05-24 Thread Aaron McCurry
Thanks, a lot! So for RAID 10, is the thought that the node can survive a single disk failure and keep going until a normal maintain cycle? Also are you saying that you would configure a single RAID 10 for the whole box? OS included? I have 8 x 500 Gig drives, so that would leave me with 2T per

Re: Ideal configuration for given hardware

2010-05-24 Thread Ian Soboroff
My data disks on two of my nodes are RAID-5, just because of circumstances. My other nodes are JBOD. I don't notice any real difference, but I haven't strongly benched it. Ian On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > I can think of at least 2 clusters running 32GB boxes with sin

Re: Ideal configuration for given hardware

2010-05-24 Thread Jonathan Ellis
I can think of at least 2 clusters running 32GB boxes with single Cassandra processes on each. (16 seems to be more common.) At 64 I would seriously consider multiple processes per machine. You'd want to configure a Snitch such that same-machine boxes were considered the same rack, there is no s

Ideal configuration for given hardware

2010-05-23 Thread Aaron McCurry
I am planning on setting up a Cassandra cluster on a small 16 node cluster (possibly 32 way). Each machine has 8 cores 32 Gig of ram and 8 hds. My first thought is to setup one of those hds for the commit log, 6 for data and leave one for the OS. However I do have a concern about best utilizing