Re: incrementally acquiring tokens

2014-12-16 Thread Tyler Hobbs
On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Jonathan Haddad wrote: > > As a potential approach, would it be possible for a node to incrementally > acquire tokens, and as a result incrementally stream? You could have a > node serving requests after acquiring 1 token, and it would gradually take > ownership

incrementally acquiring tokens

2014-12-13 Thread Jonathan Haddad
I've been thinking a bit about the problem of fat nodes (say, 20gb per node). My understanding is that the amount of overhead of adding a new node into the ring is massive with fat nodes due to the fact that you have to stream in 20TB which takes forever. In a scenario where a given node only has