Fantastic article! Tim
On 5 October 2013 18:14, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > From my perspective, your question is almost impossible to > answer, there are too many variables. See: > > http://searchhub.org/dev/2012/07/23/sizing-hardware-in-the-abstract-why-we-dont-have-a-definitive-answer/ > > Best, > Erick > > On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Otis Gospodnetic > <otis.gospodne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > More CPU cores means more concurrency. This is good if you need to > handle > > high query rates. > > > > Faster cores mean lower query latency, assuming you are not bottlenecked > by > > memory or disk IO or network IO. > > > > So what is ideal for you depends on your concurrency and latency needs. > > > > Otis > > Solr & ElasticSearch Support > > http://sematext.com/ > > On Oct 1, 2013 9:33 AM, "adfel70" <adfe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> hi > >> We're building a spec for a machine to purchase. > >> We're going to buy 10 machines. > >> we aren't sure yet how many proccesses we will run per machine. > >> the question is -should we buy faster cpu with less cores or slower cpu > >> with more cores? > >> in any case we will have 2 cpus in each machine. > >> should we buy 2.6Ghz cpu with 8 cores or 3.5Ghz cpu with 4 cores? > >> > >> what will we gain by having many cores? > >> > >> what kinds of usages would make cpu be the bottleneck? > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> View this message in context: > >> http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/solr-cpu-usage-tp4092938.html > >> Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >> >