Responses inline. --- Jeremiah Peschka Founder, Brent Ozar Unlimited
On Nov 7, 2012, at 6:45 AM, "Kevin Burton" <rkevinbur...@charter.net> wrote: > Thank you this will help. I am a little new to the administration of init.d. > What do I need to edit to remove the startup of the Riak instance? What > should be changed to the init.d to run the script on boot up? I notice that > the script only has functions. You should consult your Linux distribution for helpful hints on doing this. This[1] may be of some help. [1]: http://www.unixtutorial.org/2009/01/disable-service-startup-in-ubuntu/ > How are the functions used? You'd use those functions the same way you would use any other Linux command. > You also do ‘ulimit –n 1024’. On installation I received a warning that 1024 > was too low. Should the ulimit be changed? Yes. You'll rapidly run into problems with open file handles, especially with multiple Riak nodes on the same box. > > Thanks again. > > > From: riak-users [mailto:riak-users-boun...@lists.basho.com] On Behalf Of > Jeremiah Peschka > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 8:17 AM > To: riak-users@lists.basho.com > Subject: Re: Cluster on startup. > > To add a node to a cluster, you can execute riak-admin cluster join > riak@192.168.0.1 See [1] for more details. There is no need to reboot for the > cluster to be formed; the nodes will talk amongst themselves and once they > find each other, the cluster is up. > > To start and stop my dev cluster, I wrote a quick bash function [2] to handle > starting and stopping my local dev cluster. In production, you'd add Riak to > the init scripts like you did with your single node. You could even tell > init.d to not start the main cluster and instead execute your dev cluster if > you'd prefer. > > If I were you, I'd remove (or at the very least, stop) the Riak instance > you've got and walk through the Fast Track/Quick Start. > > > [1]: http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/cookbooks/Adding-and-Removing-Nodes/ > [2]: https://github.com/peschkaj/dotfiles/blob/master/bash/functions.sh#L4 > --- > Jeremiah Peschka > Founder, Brent Ozar Unlimited > > On Nov 7, 2012, at 4:27 AM, "Kevin Burton" <rkevinbur...@charter.net> wrote: > > On more question. The “Quick Start” shows manually starting each riak server > then joining. But when I start my Linux server I see that a riak server is > started. I am assuming that this is the main riak server that was installed. > How do I start three riak instances instead of just one or by starting one > they all are started automatically? I understand the join cannot be > configured. So after I have these three riak instances running (presumably > after a reboot) then I join them into a cluster, reboot, and the cluster will > be formed? After the cluster has been formed how do I “edit” it? I would > foresee needing to add or remove nodes from the cluster. > > From: Reid Draper [mailto:reiddra...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 9:36 PM > To: Kevin Burton > Cc: riak-users@lists.basho.com > Subject: Re: Cluster on startup. > > > On Nov 6, 2012, at 5:43 PM, Kevin Burton <rkevinbur...@charter.net> wrote: > > > > This is probably an FAQ but I was unable to find an answer so hopefully there > will be some patient people. > > The “Quick Start” builds a simple cluster all on the same machine (called > dev1, dev2, and dev3). It assigns the ports, IP addresses, etc. I would like > to do something similar but I would like the cluster to startup > automatically. What do I need to add to the configuration file so that all of > the joins etc. happen on startup? This would be a Ubuntu Server if it makes > any difference. > > There is no configuration option to do this. However, once the nodes have > been joined to a cluster, they'll > remain part of the same cluster even if they're restarted. Hope this helps. > > Reid > > > Thank you. > > Kevin > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
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