Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264146AbTICSH7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:07:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264158AbTICSGp (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:06:45 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:38105 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264146AbTICSGJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:06:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 11:05:47 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: William Lee Irwin III , "Brown, Len" , Giuliano Pochini , Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Scaling noise Message-ID: <20030903180547.GD5769@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , William Lee Irwin III , "Brown, Len" , Giuliano Pochini , Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030903111934.GF10257@work.bitmover.com> <20030903180037.GP4306@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030903180037.GP4306@holomorphy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0.5, required 7, AWL, DATE_IN_PAST_06_12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 742 Lines: 18 > The lines of reasoning presented against tightly coupled systems are > grossly flawed. [etc]. Only problem with your statements is that IBM has already implemented all of the required features in VM. And multiple Linux instances are running on it today, with shared disks underneath so they don't replicate all the stuff that doesn't need to be replicated, and they have shared memory across instances. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/