On 07/02/2015 06:18 PM, Nate Curry wrote: > I was reading the documentation on the website in regards to the > recommended memory for the monitors. It says that there should be "1GB of > RAM per daemon instance". Does the daemon instance refer to the number of > OSDs? I am planning on setting up 4 hosts with 16 OSDs each initially. > Would I need 64 GB of memory per monitor? I don't think that would scale > well at some point so I am thinking that is not correct. Can I get some > clarification? > No, that's for the OSD. A mon should be ok with 4 ~ 8 GB of memory. Just make sure it has fast storage like an SSD. I think however that a 4 host Ceph cluster with 16 OSDs per host is way to small. 8 hosts with each 8 OSDs would be a lot better. Or even 16 hosts with 4 OSDs each. Scale horizontally with Ceph! > > Thanks, > > *Nate Curry* > > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > -- Wido den Hollander 42on B.V. Ceph trainer and consultant Phone: +31 (0)20 700 9902 Skype: contact42on _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com