Yes, you've saved us all lots of time with this article. I'm about to do the same for the old "Jetty or Tomcat?" container question ;).
Tim On 7 October 2013 18:55, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tim: > > Thanks! Mostly I wrote it to have something official looking to hide > behind when I didn't have a good answer to the hardware sizing question > :). > > On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Tim Vaillancourt <t...@elementspace.com> > wrote: > > 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. > >> >> > >> >
