Re: Cassandra on heterogeneous servers

2012-01-09 Thread aaron morton
> Or does a cassandra cluster works best with the same > hardware in every node? Things work best if the nodes all have the same HW. If you mix HW then you need to capacity plan against a machine made up of all of the lowest performing parts. What's happening with the poor performance ? Poke

Cassandra on heterogeneous servers

2012-01-09 Thread Daniel Bruegge
Hi, I am currently running 4 cassandra nodes with the following hardware - AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ - 8G RAM - 750G hard disk It shows not such a good writing performance and a really bad read performance with sometimes also timeouts. I was wondering if it makes sense to add 2 nodes with a differe