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
> >
> >
>

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