Re: Running a very small cluster

2010-06-09 Thread Per Olesen
> Why don't you run the benchmark contrib/stress.py to see what performance do > you get ? Didn't know about that one. Will give it a try. Thanks.

Re: Running a very small cluster

2010-06-09 Thread Jordan Pittier - Rezel
Hi, Regarding point c), you should ask your self, "what is good performance for me ?". The read performance mainly depends on how fast your hard drives are and how many rows you can maintain in cache. With such a small cluster, if you want "good" read performance, you better have fast hard drive an

Running a very small cluster

2010-06-09 Thread Per Olesen
Short question: Do cassandra only *really* shine when running a cluster with lots of nodes? Same question in a lengthy version: If what I want to obtain from my cassandra cluster is given as this: a) protection against data loss if nodes disk-crash b) good uptime, if servers become unavailable o