From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:18:48 +0300 From: "John Waters" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <9398ef587c2de8891e55c7d8b1307824@quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <487C6892.1080208@proweb.co.uk> <9398ef587c2de8891e55c7d8b1307824@quanstro.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image Topicbox-Message-UUID: e720ddc0-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Indeed, I have been toying around with the idea of building a larger scale version of Mr. Minnich's lunchbox using Mini-ITX boards.. But I have no justification, since virtually everything i need to do with plan 9 happens impossibly fast on just a simple vmware instance. Plan9 is sufficiently speedy to stifle my desire to build a fast system. John On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:49 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> In the Linux world kvlade looks the way to go for performance but it >> didn't work on AMD64 when I tried it. I guess the Coraid boxes make Plan >> 9 go fast enough so I just need to stop worrying about it. > > plan 9 is a good platform; it is very speedy and doesn't do anything > to you. we didn't need to make it go fast. > > - erik > > >