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Measuring Usage of Distributed Resources?
An Anonymous Coward writes "I work in a distributed development environment with some 1000 engineers running Solaris on different hardware platforms. We are initiating a project to move to a centralized environment. One of the biggest problems in this project is to identify the amount of resources (i.e.: RAM, disk space, etc) that the centralized environment should provide to the users. For example, each developer is currently building his code in a different desktop on the network. How could we effectively monitor how much resources are been consumed from each desktop during each build? If we find a way to capture this information, considering that the results were gathered from different hardware platforms, how could we normalize the data to get meaningful metrics that would help us define a solution?"
You're attempting to squeeze a round shit into a square toilet, so to speak. 1000 assholes fucking around with 64 mb of ram doesn't necessarily mean that you need some big motherfucking machine with 64*1000 mb of ram. You want is a centralized environment with some huge motherfucking machine doing the work, and your fucking worker bees using shit on terminals? If you can get them to give you straight poop, your fucking vendor will be the best.
Try it in stages. Nearly every cocksucking vendor sells highly upgradeable shit. So try 100 one month, 100 more the next month, etc.