Re: Ideal configuration for given hardware

2010-05-24 Thread Aaron McCurry
would run raid 10 on the data disks if you can afford giving up the >> space, otherwise raid0. I don't know that anyone's tested raid5. >> >> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Aaron McCurry >> wrote: >> > I am planning on setting up a Cassandra cluster on

Ideal configuration for given hardware

2010-05-23 Thread Aaron McCurry
I am planning on setting up a Cassandra cluster on a small 16 node cluster (possibly 32 way). Each machine has 8 cores 32 Gig of ram and 8 hds. My first thought is to setup one of those hds for the commit log, 6 for data and leave one for the OS. However I do have a concern about best utilizing