Thanks Alain On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Alain RODRIGUEZ <arodr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello. > > For questions to Datastax, I recommend you to ask them directly. I often > had a quick answer and they probably can answer this better than we do :). > > Apache Cassandra (and probably DSE-Cassandra) can work with 8 CPU (and > less!). I would not go much lower though. I believe the memory amount and > good disk throughputs are more important. It also depends on the workload > type and intensity, encryption, compression etc. > > 8 CPUs is probably just fine if well tuned, and here in the mailing list, > we 'support' any fancy configuration settings, but with no guarantee on the > response time and without taking the responsibility for your cluster :). > > It reminds me of my own start with Apache Cassandra. I started with > t1.micro back then on AWS, and people were still helping me here, of course > after a couple of jokes such as 'you should rather try to play a > PlayStation 4 game in your Gameboy', that's fair enough I guess :). Well it > was working in prod and I learned how to tune Apache Cassandra, I had no > other options to have this working. > > Having more CPU probably improves resiliency to some problems and reduces > the importance of having a cluster perfectly tuned. > > Benchmark your workload, test it. This would be the most accurate answer > here given the details we have. > > C*heers, > ----------------------- > Alain Rodriguez - @arodream - al...@thelastpickle.com > France / Spain > > The Last Pickle - Apache Cassandra Consulting > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > 2018-04-04 9:44 GMT+01:00 sujeet jog <sujeet....@gmail.com>: > >> the datastax site has a hardware recommendation of 16CPU / 32G RAM for >> DSE Enterprise, Any idea what is the minimum hardware recommendation >> supported, can each node be 8CPU and the support covering it ?.. >> > >
