This got me thinking of different queuing situations in the RL, for example the long line of women that queue up outside the women's restroom.
How does this parking app compare with one where a woman gets into a stall, stays there while she posts her spot in it, waits for the auctions to roll in and gives up her space to the winner? I think the similarities are striking.
I am not promoting this, just mentioning that Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 64-bit (which is based on RedHat Linux 5 I believe) comes with Xen kernels and software.
I have tried it out running an instance of OEL 5 (64-bit) as a dom0, an Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 (64-bit) as a domU, and an Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.4 (32-bit) as a domU.
The domains startup well, and disk I/O performance seems to be close to native speed.
More tests are required though. In particular testing NFS performance and installation Oracle's applications.
I agree with you on the business reasons why SUN is raising prices. SUN is struggling to find a compelling business model for themselves. This might be desperately measure to keep the company financially healthy.
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This got me thinking of different queuing situations in the RL, for example the long line of women that queue up outside the women's restroom. How does this parking app compare with one where a woman gets into a stall, stays there while she posts her spot in it, waits for the auctions to roll in and gives up her space to the winner? I think the similarities are striking.
My reply is: # of CPUs on the RDBMS server.
So for a 8-way SUN server, you just need 8 user *sessions* submitting a 3 table cartesian product join, each table with 1 million rows.
Who many users does it take to bring down a server?
It could just be ONE human, issuing the same query 8 times in a row...
cuil returns 1.4 Billion rows
http://www.cuil.com/search?q=data
Google returns 2.2 Billion rows
http://www.google.com/search?q=data
Inconsistencies during early google years. http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/features/google/inconsistent.shtml
How about clusty.com? It has a left navigation map with topics, which you can narrow down your list like cuil.com does with its tabs.
I am not promoting this, just mentioning that Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 64-bit (which is based on RedHat Linux 5 I believe) comes with Xen kernels and software.
I have tried it out running an instance of OEL 5 (64-bit) as a dom0, an Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 (64-bit) as a domU, and an Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.4 (32-bit) as a domU.
The domains startup well, and disk I/O performance seems to be close to native speed.
More tests are required though. In particular testing NFS performance and installation Oracle's applications.
IIRC, the threading of the core memory was done in India by craftsmen how had the skill and patience to weave Persian rugs.
I agree with you on the business reasons why SUN is raising prices. SUN is struggling to find a compelling business model for themselves. This might be desperately measure to keep the company financially healthy.
Heat does transfer slowly.