As others said, depends on load and traffic and all sorts of thins. if you want a number, 4Gb would me a reasonable minimum IMHO. (You may get by with less). 8Gb is about the tops. Any memory not allocated to Cassandra will be used to map files into memory.
If you can get machines with 8GB ram thats a reasonable start. ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 1/03/2012, at 1:16 AM, Maki Watanabe wrote: > Depends on your traffic :-) > > cassandra-env.sh will try to allocate heap with following formula if > you don't specify MAX_HEAP_SIZE. > 1. calculate 1/2 of RAM on your system and cap to 1024MB > 2. calculate 1/4 of RAM on your system and cap to 8192MB > 3. pick the larger value > > So how about to start with the default? You will need to monitor the > heap usage at first. > > 2012/2/29 Ertio Lew <ertio...@gmail.com>: >> Thanks, I think I don't need high consistency(as per my app requirements) so >> I might be fine with CL.ONE instead of quorum, so I think I'm probably >> going to be ok with a 2 node cluster initially.. >> >> Could you guys also recommend some minimum memory to start with ? Of course >> that would depend on my workload as well, but that's why I am asking for the >> min >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Maki Watanabe <watanabe.m...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>>> If you run your service with 2 node and RF=2, your data will be >>>> replicated but >>>> your service will not be redundant. ( You can't stop both of nodes ) >>> >>> If your service doesn't need strong consistency ( allow cassandra returns >>> "old" data after write, and possible write lost ), you can use CL=ONE >>> for read and write >>> to keep availability. >>> >>> maki >> >> > > > > -- > w3m
