Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264396AbTICToh (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 15:44:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264410AbTICTnN (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 15:43:13 -0400 Received: from adsl-63-194-239-202.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.239.202]:54032 "EHLO mmp-linux.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264406AbTICTlT (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 15:41:19 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:41:33 -0700 From: Mike Fedyk To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: J?rn Engel , Alan Cox , Bernd Eckenfels , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Scaling noise Message-ID: <20030903194133.GC16361@matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Martin J. Bligh" , J?rn Engel , Alan Cox , Bernd Eckenfels , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <1062590946.19059.18.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <25950000.1062601832@[10.10.2.4]> <20030903160133.GA23538@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <31570000.1062606101@[10.10.2.4]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <31570000.1062606101@[10.10.2.4]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 743 Lines: 14 On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 09:21:47AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > I've seen people use big machines for clusterable things, which I think > is a waste of money, but the cost of the machine compared to the cost > of admin (vs multiple machines) may have come down to the point where > it's worth it now. You get implicit "cluster" load balancing done in a > transparent way by the OS on NUMA boxes. Doesn't SSI clustering do something similar (without the effency of the interconnections though)? - 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/