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Re:Supercharging the Elasticsearch Percolator on Thursday October 15, 2015 @01:16PM (#10394448)
Currently running with three ES data nodes per physical machine, with 30GB -Xmx allocated to each instance.
Re:Graph everything with Graphite on Friday December 12, 2014 @06:48AM (#8739553)
I ended up setting up one machine with a 80GB tmpfs mount for the graphite data, and then rsync it to disk every hour. That allows carbon-cache to keep up, but I'm not happy with the setup.

Whisper is terrible for spinning disks.

Re:fork() can fail on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @08:12PM (#8205352)
The compile will fail if err is unused. You have to explicitly ignore it by doing like this:

pid,_ = fork()