That is a pretty small amount of memory. It should work, but you will see odd performance problems with some programs due to memory binding.
Hadoop is generally very good about using hardly any memory at all, but it is common to write programs that collect a fair bit of data during the reduce step. That could easily be a downfall for you. On 10/20/07 7:04 AM, "Sukalyan Banga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > I am new at clustering, to start a demo cluster what are the steps require > to take. > Presently I could experimenting with 3 Linux system all latest Intel based > with 512 RAM > Thanks > Sukalyan Banga
