Re: zookeeper, how do you feed the pets?

2010-05-17 Thread Patrick Hunt
Hi, ZK uses a quorum protocol (similar but not the same as paxos) for writes, as a result it's sensitive to inter-server latency. (however reads are always local and therefore not effected) Running a cluster fully w/in a colo you can achieve 15k writes/second, with a cluster distributed across

Re: zookeeper, how do you feed the pets?

2010-05-16 Thread Chris Goffinet
If you are running multiple datacenters, intend to have a lot of writes for counters, I highly advise against it. We got rid of ZK because of that. -Chris On May 16, 2010, at 7:04 PM, S Ahmed wrote: Can someone quickly go over how you go about using zookeeper if you want to store counts and

Re: zookeeper, how do you feed the pets?

2010-05-16 Thread S Ahmed
yes counts will be a big part of the project (user points). ok i'll wait for that vector implementation then (I think that is what it was called). thanks! On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Chris Goffinet c...@chrisgoffinet.comwrote: If you are running multiple datacenters, intend to have a