Re: VM dimensions for running Cassandra and Hadoop

2013-07-31 Thread Jan Algermissen
Hi Shahab, On 31.07.2013, at 15:59, Shahab Yunus wrote: > Hi Jan, > > One question...you say > "- I must make sure the disks are directly attached, to prevent > problems when multiple nodes flush the commit log at the > same time" I read that using Cassandra with SANs can cause Problems be

Re: VM dimensions for running Cassandra and Hadoop

2013-07-31 Thread Shahab Yunus
Hi Jan, One question...you say "- I must make sure the disks are directly attached, to prevent problems when multiple nodes flush the commit log at the same time" What do you mean by that? Thanks, Shahab On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 3:10 AM, Jan Algermissen wrote: > Jon, > > On 31.07.2013, at

Re: VM dimensions for running Cassandra and Hadoop

2013-07-31 Thread Jan Algermissen
Jon, On 31.07.2013, at 08:15, Jonathan Haddad wrote: > Having just enough RAM to hold the JVM's heap generally isn't a good idea > unless you're not planning on doing much with the machine. Yes, I agree. Two questions though: - Do you think that using a JVM heap of, for example, 12 GB and h

Re: VM dimensions for running Cassandra and Hadoop

2013-07-30 Thread Jonathan Haddad
Having just enough RAM to hold the JVM's heap generally isn't a good idea unless you're not planning on doing much with the machine. Any memory not allocated to a process will generally be put to good use serving as page cache. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_cache Jon On Tue, Jul 3

VM dimensions for running Cassandra and Hadoop

2013-07-30 Thread Jan Algermissen
Hi, thanks for the helpful replies last week. It looks as if I will deploy Cassandra on a bunch of VMs and I am now in the process of understanding what the dimensions of the VMS should be. So far, I understand the following: - I need at least 3 VMs for a minimal Cassandra setup - I should get