Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264438AbTICUYN (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 16:24:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264451AbTICUWl (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 16:22:41 -0400 Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.103]:52116 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264449AbTICUWa (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 16:22:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 13:11:23 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Mike Fedyk cc: "J?rn Engel" , Alan Cox , Bernd Eckenfels , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Scaling noise Message-ID: <98770000.1062619883@flay> In-Reply-To: <20030903194133.GC16361@matchmail.com> 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]> <20030903194133.GC16361@matchmail.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.2 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 847 Lines: 20 > 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)? Yes ... *if* someone had a implementation that worked well and was maintainable ;-) M. - 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/