From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>,
Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>,
Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: TOE brain dump
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 16:44:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030803234419.GA13604@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308031405130.24695-100000@dlang.diginsite.com>
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 02:21:12PM -0700, David Lang wrote:
> if your 8-way opteron database box is already the bottleneck for your
> system you will have to spend a LOT of money to get anything that gives
> you more available processing power, getting a card to offload any
> processing from the main CPU's can be a win.
I'd like to see data which supports this. CPUs have gotten so fast and
disk I/O still sucks. All the systems I've seen are CPU rich and I/O
starved. The smartest thing you could do would be to get a cheap box
with a GB of ram as a disk cache and make it be a SAN device. Make
N of those and you have tons of disk space and tons of cache and your
8 way opteron database box is going to work just fine.
--
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Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-03 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-02 17:04 TOE brain dump Werner Almesberger
2003-08-02 17:32 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2003-08-02 18:06 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-02 19:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-02 21:49 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-03 6:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-03 17:57 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-03 18:27 ` Erik Andersen
2003-08-03 19:40 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-03 20:13 ` David Lang
2003-08-03 20:30 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-03 21:21 ` David Lang
2003-08-03 21:21 ` David Lang
2003-08-03 23:44 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2003-08-03 21:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-05 19:28 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-03 20:34 ` jamal
2003-08-04 1:47 ` Glen Turner
2003-08-04 3:48 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-04 5:25 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-04 16:20 ` Web100 Matt Mathis
2003-08-06 7:12 ` TOE brain dump Andre Hedrick
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.10.10308060009130.25045-100000@master.linux-ide .org>
2003-08-06 8:20 ` Lincoln Dale
2003-08-06 8:22 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-06 13:07 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-08-03 19:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-08-04 19:24 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-04 19:26 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-05 17:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-08-05 17:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-08-06 5:13 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-06 7:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-08-06 13:37 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-06 15:58 ` Andy Isaacson
2003-08-06 16:27 ` Chris Friesen
2003-08-06 17:01 ` Andy Isaacson
2003-08-06 17:55 ` Matti Aarnio
2003-08-07 2:14 ` Lincoln Dale
2003-08-06 12:46 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-08-06 16:25 ` Andy Isaacson
2003-08-06 18:58 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-08-06 19:39 ` Andy Isaacson
2003-08-06 21:13 ` David Schwartz
2003-08-03 4:01 ` Ben Greear
2003-08-03 6:22 ` Alan Shih
2003-08-03 6:22 ` Alan Shih
2003-08-03 6:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-03 8:25 ` David Lang
2003-08-03 18:05 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-03 22:02 ` Alan Shih
2003-08-03 20:52 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-04 14:36 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-08-04 17:19 ` Alan Shih
2003-08-04 17:19 ` Alan Shih
2003-08-05 8:15 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-08-02 20:57 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-02 22:14 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-03 20:51 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <g83n.8vu.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-03 12:13 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-03 18:10 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-04 8:55 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-04 13:08 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-08-04 19:32 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-04 19:48 ` David Lang
2003-08-04 19:56 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-04 20:01 ` David Lang
2003-08-04 20:09 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-04 20:24 ` David Lang
2003-08-05 1:38 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-05 1:46 ` David Lang
2003-08-05 1:54 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-05 2:30 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-06 1:47 ` Val Henson
2003-08-05 3:04 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-04 23:30 ` Peter Chubb
[not found] <gq0f.8bj.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <gvCD.4mJ.5@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <gJmp.7Th.33@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <gNpS.2YJ.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-04 14:15 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-04 14:56 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-08-04 15:51 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-04 16:45 jamal
2003-08-04 18:48 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-04 19:42 ` jamal
2003-08-04 20:06 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-04 18:36 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2003-08-04 19:03 ` Alan Cox
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