This is definitely a first world problem.. having databases that are CPU bound :-P
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 1:05 PM, jeeyoung kim <jeeyou...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been running with FIOs and we've been CPU bound most of the time. But > I'm not using native transport yet, and is hoping that it would make things > faster. > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Christopher Brodt <ch...@uberbrodt.net> > wrote: > >> You should get pretty great performance with those FusionIO cards. One >> thing I watch out for whenever scaling Cassandra vertically is compaction >> times, which probably won't matter here. However, you have to take into >> account that you lose some resiliency to failures with less nodes. >> >> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Russ Bradberry <rbradbe...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I've heard of people running dense nodes (8+ TB) using fusion I/O, but >>> with 10GBe connections. I mean why buy a Ferrari and never leave first gear? >>> >>> As far as saturating the network goes, I guess that all depends on your >>> workload, and how often you need to repair. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Nov 6, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Kevin Burton <bur...@spinn3r.com> wrote: >>> >>> We’re looking at switching data centers and they’re offering pretty >>> aggressive pricing on boxes with fusion IO cards. >>> >>> 2x 1.2TB Fusion IO >>> 128GB RAM >>> 20 cores. >>> >>> now.. this isn’t the typical cassandra box. Most people are running >>> multiple nodes to scale out vs scale vertically. But these boxes are >>> priced aggressively and honestly I think that cassandra would be able to >>> saturate the gigabit ethernet port on these machines. >>> >>> so it *might* be that these are TOO powerful in a way. >>> >>> Curious if others are running in this config and what tuning options >>> were required to get it to work. >>> >>> Kevin >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com >>> Location: *San Francisco, CA* >>> blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com >>> … or check out my Google+ profile >>> <https://plus.google.com/102718274791889610666/posts> >>> <http://spinn3r.com> >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Jeeyoung Kim > http://kimjeeyoung.com/ > > -- Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com Location: *San Francisco, CA* blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com … or check out my Google+ profile <https://plus.google.com/102718274791889610666/posts> <http://spinn3r.com>
