Also in that video - it's long but worth watching

We tested up to 1M reads/second as well, blowing out page cache to ensure we 
weren't "just" reading from memory



-- 
Jeff Jirsa


> On Jan 31, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Jack Krupansky <jack.krupan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> How about reads? Any differences between read-intensive and write-intensive 
> workloads?
> 
> -- Jack Krupansky
> 
>> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 3:13 AM, Jeff Jirsa <jeff.ji...@crowdstrike.com> 
>> wrote:
>> Hi John,
>> 
>> We run using 4T GP2 volumes, which guarantee 10k iops. Even at 1M writes per 
>> second on 60 nodes, we didn’t come close to hitting even 50% utilization 
>> (10k is more than enough for most workloads). PIOPS is not necessary. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: John Wong
>> Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org"
>> Date: Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 3:07 PM
>> To: "user@cassandra.apache.org"
>> Subject: Re: EC2 storage options for C*
>> 
>> For production I'd stick with ephemeral disks (aka instance storage) if you 
>> have running a lot of transaction.
>> However, for regular small testing/qa cluster, or something you know you 
>> want to reload often, EBS is definitely good enough and we haven't had 
>> issues 99%. The 1% is kind of anomaly where we have flush blocked.
>> 
>> But Jeff, kudo that you are able to use EBS. I didn't go through the video, 
>> do you actually use PIOPS or just standard GP2 in your production cluster?
>> 
>>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Bryan Cheng <br...@blockcypher.com> wrote:
>>> Yep, that motivated my question "Do you have any idea what kind of disk 
>>> performance you need?". If you need the performance, its hard to beat 
>>> ephemeral SSD in RAID 0 on EC2, and its a solid, battle tested 
>>> configuration. If you don't, though, EBS GP2 will save a _lot_ of headache.
>>> 
>>> Personally, on small clusters like ours (12 nodes), we've found our choice 
>>> of instance dictated much more by the balance of price, CPU, and memory. 
>>> We're using GP2 SSD and we find that for our patterns the disk is rarely 
>>> the bottleneck. YMMV, of course.
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Jeff Jirsa <jeff.ji...@crowdstrike.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> If you have to ask that question, I strongly recommend m4 or c4 instances 
>>>> with GP2 EBS.  When you don’t care about replacing a node because of an 
>>>> instance failure, go with i2+ephemerals. Until then, GP2 EBS is capable of 
>>>> amazing things, and greatly simplifies life.
>>>> 
>>>> We gave a talk on this topic at both Cassandra Summit and AWS re:Invent: 
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R-mgOcOSd4 It’s very much a viable 
>>>> option, despite any old documents online that say otherwise.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> From: Eric Plowe
>>>> Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org"
>>>> Date: Friday, January 29, 2016 at 4:33 PM
>>>> To: "user@cassandra.apache.org"
>>>> Subject: EC2 storage options for C*
>>>> 
>>>> My company is planning on rolling out a C* cluster in EC2. We are thinking 
>>>> about going with ephemeral SSDs. The question is this: Should we put two 
>>>> in RAID 0 or just go with one? We currently run a cluster in our data 
>>>> center with 2 250gig Samsung 850 EVO's in RAID 0 and we are happy with the 
>>>> performance we are seeing thus far.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> Eric
> 

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