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« Last post by 40hz on September 04, 2011, 12:33 PM »Good software is never "final"!-Tuxman (September 04, 2011, 11:46 AM)
I wasn't saying "final" - just "finally out."
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Good software is never "final"!-Tuxman (September 04, 2011, 11:46 AM)
In fact - do this. You already have a really beefy machine, right? Use VMware and build your servers as virtual servers. Build bunches of them if you want, they are only software, so you can create and destroy VM's as often as needed. Create specialized ones and general purpose ones. Create machines that work with alternative solutions. Once you have everything working the way you want using test files and test data (you can add data storage later to do the same thing over and over again) sit back and see how it was done. Determine the relative performance of each option. Did it require certain server software? Did it require multiple machines that specialized in specific tasks? Was it flaky and temperamental? If the answers here are generally yes, then a server may well be the way to go. But if you want simple elegance and set and forget features, you will likely find better, more refined answers on a workstation where everything runs in one box with a single client OS (or a consumer grade Home Server if you prefer). Regardless of which answer you come up with though, the beauty of setting it all up in a hypervisor is you can then roll it up and drop the entire system pre-set onto the new box and be running in minutes using something like ESXi on the new box instead of windows.-steeladept (September 03, 2011, 10:36 PM)
100Mbps is unusable-lotusrootstarch (September 04, 2011, 09:11 AM)
Pre-eulogization: (vt) The act of writing a eulogy in advance of a controversial person's immanent demise,; done with the intention of furnishing an apology or positive spin on said person's behavior before the journalists and biographers have a field day showing just how much of a dyed-in-the-wool bastard said person truly was.
I guess having the perfect swap setup is quickly approaching the snake oil status, pretty much like all the optimization tricks that no longer bring quantifiable benefits today.-Lashiec (September 04, 2011, 10:19 AM)
Nope. They want nothing to do with us nixers.-40hz (September 02, 2011, 01:20 PM)
Yet it's amazing the amount of open source supporters who run a Mac, though sometimes out of spite-Lashiec (September 04, 2011, 10:03 AM)
I don't understand how this is different than the configuration I posted on the previous page. I don't mean technically, I mean conceptually. Isn't this a rack/server type setup just like the one I posted from Stallard?-superboyac (September 03, 2011, 01:05 AM)
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Only to the person that created them. Because only they know the (true) reasoning behind whatever deviation(s) has/have been used to achieve said target number(s). Statistics are projections of what might be if ... All of the other formulaic assertions used fall into place in accordance with the known factual parameters used, and nothing odd happens. To anyone else there simply an educated guess, that leverages their level of trust in whom ever ran-the-numbers.-Stoic Joker (September 02, 2011, 06:36 PM)
It's almost unbelievable Windows has done nothing in all these years regarding swap.-MilesAhead (September 02, 2011, 02:28 PM)
If they improved swap file that's fine but by the very nature of file systems I would tend to guess the partition swap is a lot closer to the low level calculations that file systems use to manage the files. Therefore it's awfully likely there's another layer on top of that for the file system that's not there for the partition management.-MilesAhead (September 02, 2011, 01:45 PM)
But isn't the mac crowd sort of mixed in with the *nix crowd now?-wraith808 (September 02, 2011, 12:20 PM)
They are mathematically bases guesses, or assumptions if you will.-Stoic Joker (September 02, 2011, 09:50 AM)
... it's early, and statistics tend to annoy me...-Stoic Joker (September 02, 2011, 06:43 AM)
