[Lustre-discuss] Anyone using this or similar system

[Andreas Dilger]

On 2010-08-10, at 02:04, Richard Chang wrote:
> By the way, what will be the ideal memory size if we use such a system for OSS, keeping in mind I need to make 6 OST's ( i.e. 8TB file-system size per OST ).

I can't comment on the system, but _minimum_ RAM sizes are documented in the manual.  You normally want more than the minimum (RAM is cheap), but definitely not less.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Lustre Technical Lead
Oracle Corporation Canada Inc.