Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261823AbTIHA6C (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 20:58:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261825AbTIHA6C (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 20:58:02 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:59316 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261823AbTIHA6A (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 20:58:00 -0400 Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 17:57:49 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Larry McVoy , "Martin J. Bligh" , William Lee Irwin III , Alan Cox , "Brown, Len" , Giuliano Pochini , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Scaling noise Message-ID: <20030908005749.GA24714@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , "Eric W. Biederman" , Larry McVoy , "Martin J. Bligh" , William Lee Irwin III , Alan Cox , "Brown, Len" , Giuliano Pochini , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20030903194658.GC1715@holomorphy.com> <105370000.1062622139@flay> <20030903212119.GX4306@holomorphy.com> <115070000.1062624541@flay> <20030903215135.GY4306@holomorphy.com> <116940000.1062625566@flay> <20030904010653.GD5227@work.bitmover.com> <20030907230729.GA19380@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: 971 Lines: 22 On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 05:47:04PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > I have already built a 2304 cpu machine and am working on a 2900+ cpu > machine. That's not "a machine" that's ~1150 machines on a network. This business of describing a bunch of boxes on a network as "a machine" is nonsense. Don't get me wrong, I love clusters, in fact, I think what you are doing is great. It doesn't screw up the OS, it forces the OS to stay lean and mean. Goodness. All the CC cluster stuff is about making sure that the SMP fanatics don't screw up the OS for you. We're on the same side. Try not to be so rude and have a bit more vision. -- --- 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/