We use anywhere from 3-5 seeds for clusters that have over 150 nodes. That should suffice for larger sizes too since they are only for initial discovery.
Avinash On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Benjamin Black <b...@b3k.us> wrote: > Seeds are used for ring discovery, so there really isn't a load > concern for them, afaict. Have enough to meet your availability > needs, including placement, and rock out. > > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Joseph Ruscio <jrus...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ben, > > > > Great, was looking for something like this just the other day. One > question I'm still unclear on, when setting up multiple nodes, say 4-8 (or > more) what's the suggested ratio of seed vs. non-seed nodes? > > > > thanks, > > Joe > > > > On Apr 3, 2010, at 1:14 AM, Benjamin Black wrote: > > > >> Just added this to the wiki as it seemed a very frequent request on > >> irc: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/MultinodeCluster > >> > >> Would very much appreciate feedback and edits to improve it. > >> > >> > >> b > > > > >
