December 01, 2004
Google server metrics revealed
According to the ZNet article, The magic that makes Google tick, Google's vice-president of engineering, Urs Hölzle, was in London talking to prospective employees - and employing a little shock and awe with Google metrics.
According to the report, Google is claimed to have:
- Over four billion Web pages, each an average of 10KB, all fully indexed
- Up to 2,000 PCs in a cluster
- Over 30 clusters
- 104 interface languages including Klingon and Tagalog
- One petabyte* of data in a cluster -- so much that hard disk error rates of 10-15 begin to be a real issue
- Sustained transfer rates of 2Gbps in a cluster
- An expectation that two machines will fail every day in each of the larger clusters
- No complete system failure since February 2000
Something to make most server admin's eyes water.
Glad to notice the Klingon minority are catered for, too. :)
Perhaps more seriously, though, Urs Hölzle seems to have not realised that the Google index was claimed by Google to have increased to nearly 10 billion files.
* 1 petabyte = 1024 terabytes; 1 terabyte = 1024 gigabytes
Posted at 06:32 PM
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