I think that htis would be a very bad idea because of restart issues. As it stands, ZK reads from disk snapshots on startup to avoid moving as much data from other members of the cluster.
You might consider putting the snapshots and log on a tmpfs file system if you really, really want this. On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Thiago Borges <thbor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can Zookeeper ensemble runs only in memory rather than write in both memory > and disk? This makes senses since I have a high reliable system? (Of course > at some time we need a "dump" to shutdown and restart the entire system). > > Well, the disk IO or network first limits the throughput? > > Thanks for you quick response. I'm studding Zookeeper in my master thesis, > for coordinate distributed index structures. > -- Ted Dunning, CTO DeepDyve