On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 01:35:12PM -0500, Ivan Krsti?? wrote:
Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
You may wish to consider ordering more powerful
platforms. I run 6
instances of the entire Wikipedia on a single Solera Appliance.
These servers have throughput of 875 megabyte per second
I run a Wikipedia instance on the 366MHz OLPC XO-1
(
http://dev.laptop.org/~krstic/xo); it works because I'm the only user.
Neither storage nor disk throughput help when your problem is sheer
load, and you're computationally-bound.
Yes, Ivan; that's why Jeff suggested provisioning more powerful
platforms. :-) That he mentioned throughput is really a red-herring
here...
Cheers,
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