On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Christopher Brodt <ch...@uberbrodt.net> wrote:
> Yep. The "trouble" with FIOs is that they almost completely remove your > disk throughput problems, so then you're constrained by CPU. Concurrent > compactors and concurrent writes are two params that come to mind but there > are likely others. > > Agreed. I think the ideal scenarios for C* is about 800GB of SSD, say 64GB of RAM, and like >= 5 nodes. this way you have a fairly big install to justify going with C* but also you can run things like zookeeper and if one of your nodes goes offline you only lose 20% of your capacity. Unfortunately, these boxes are rather large which is why I posted. -- 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>
