Re: Running a cluster with 256mb RAM nodes

2011-06-08 Thread Watanabe Maki
I once built a 4 node ring on my laptop, with 64MB heap for each instances. I could write and read on it, but nodetool repair caused OOM. You should test essential operations with estimated data loaded, under expected traffic. Btw I'm using 96MBx4 node ring on my laptop now just for my private l

Running a cluster with 256mb RAM nodes

2011-06-08 Thread Donny Nadolny
I'd like to start using cassandra for a certain part of my database that has high write volume. I'm setting up a 3 node cluster, however my site doesn't make enough money yet to justify 3 nodes meeting the hardware recommendationof 4gb RAM. Instea