From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] killing processes
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:24:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ca715132a1b587e5b6ed32c6b1f41f3@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a42a16477cd81fe7bd1acc9add428906@lsub.org>
> I wonder, how many 9fans are *actually* using CPU servers?
You and Ron both confirm my experience. The CPU server I have runs
applications: e-mail, web, wiki, that type of thing. I can't use it
to render Geotiffs as I have better resources (physical memory, CPU
cycles, SWAP) in my workstation. I guess if I had homogenous
hardware, I would allocate new resources where they are more
beneficial (that's where the CPU server would consolidate the benefits
of such resources), but the mish-mash of obsolete hardware I have
accumulated just does not allow me to do so.
Something in that picture is worrying, because the file server is
still a focal point and centralising processing power ought to be
analogous, but empirically, they seem to be poles apart.
It seems to me that the authors of the early Plan 9 papers would
arrive to very different pictures if they were to consider our
conditions vis-a-vis computing resources and telecommunication
channels.
In particular, the 100MHz Cyclone connection between CPU server and
file server always suggests a reality check to me.
++L
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-15 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-15 14:44 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2005-09-15 14:55 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-09-15 15:02 ` Gabriel Diaz
2005-09-15 15:01 ` Axel Belinfante
2005-09-15 15:07 ` Uriel
2005-09-15 15:27 ` Russ Cox
2005-09-15 15:42 ` Lucio De Re
2005-09-15 15:50 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-16 21:48 ` Wes Kussmaul
2005-09-17 0:48 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-20 18:16 ` Steve Simon
2005-09-15 16:05 ` Uriel
2005-09-16 12:57 ` Axel Belinfante
2005-09-16 13:05 ` Lucio De Re
2005-09-16 13:21 ` Axel Belinfante
2005-09-16 13:42 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-09-16 14:04 ` Sape Mullender
2005-09-16 14:20 ` Russ Cox
2005-09-17 6:28 ` Lucio De Re
2005-09-17 12:46 ` Sape Mullender
2005-09-17 15:07 ` Lucio De Re
2005-09-17 15:21 ` Russ Cox
2005-09-17 16:01 ` Lucio De Re
2005-09-18 13:02 ` Sape Mullender
2005-09-15 16:39 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-09-15 16:53 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-15 20:27 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-09-16 3:09 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-09-16 3:35 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-15 15:32 ` Lucio De Re
2005-09-15 15:40 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-15 15:49 ` jmk
2005-09-27 17:05 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-15 16:00 ` Steve Simon
2005-09-16 2:17 ` Kenji Okamoto
2005-09-15 15:24 ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2005-09-15 15:44 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-15 15:49 ` Brantley Coile
2005-09-15 19:13 ` Skip Tavakkolian
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-16 1:53 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2005-09-16 5:30 ` Dave Eckhardt
2005-09-16 5:41 ` Russ Cox
2005-09-15 15:52 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2005-09-15 15:38 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2005-09-15 15:46 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-15 16:21 ` Lucio De Re
2005-09-15 16:41 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-15 15:54 ` Lucio De Re
2005-09-15 15:04 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2005-09-15 15:19 ` Axel Belinfante
2005-09-15 17:06 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-09-15 14:18 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2005-09-15 14:35 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-15 12:47 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2005-09-15 12:50 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-09-15 14:03 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-15 17:31 ` ISHWAR RATTAN
2005-09-15 19:55 ` ISHWAR RATTAN
2005-09-15 20:09 ` Uriel
2005-09-15 18:28 ` Dave Eckhardt
2005-09-15 18:57 ` Russ Cox
2005-09-16 5:20 ` Dave Eckhardt
2005-09-16 6:40 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-09-16 13:34 ` erik quanstrom
2005-09-16 13:47 ` Uriel
2005-09-19 3:00 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-09-16 16:14 ` Dave Eckhardt
2005-09-15 11:48 ISHWAR RATTAN
2005-09-15 12:03 ` Steve Simon
2005-09-15 18:33 ` Enache Adrian
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