Camilo, See http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/NameNode
And see the discussion "NameNode Hardware specs" started here: http://www.mail-archive.com/core-user@hadoop.apache.org/msg04109.html This should give you the basics. Regards, J-D On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Camilo Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Just wondering, there have been discussions/articles about Recommended > Hardware for the Cluster Nodes (ex: > http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/MachineScaling). Have there been any > discussions/articles about Recommended Hardware Configurations for the > Master (Namenode) machine? (Any links to previous discussions are > appreciated). > > It is my guessing that this machine should have much more memory than the > Data nodes, but don't know if this should be necessarily true. > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > Camilo A. Gonzalez > Ing. de Sistemas > Tel: 300 657 96 96 >
