On 12/03/2012 01:25 PM, Ewan MacMahon wrote: > you don't want to get into a situation where shutting down a single > node wipes out a large fraction of your cluster. Good point. We have some boxes with 4 nodes in each one (64 slots). It's a nuisance when we need to pull one apart, but that seems to be where it leads. Get redundant and hot swappable "everything", I guess? Steve -- Steve Jones [log in to unmask] System Administrator office: 220 High Energy Physics Division tel (int): 42334 Oliver Lodge Laboratory tel (ext): +44 (0)151 794 2334 University of Liverpool http://www.liv.ac.uk/physics/hep/