On 31 October 2013 08:10, Sam Kottler <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Nalley" <[email protected]>
> > To: "Fedora Cloud SIG" <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 10:02:17 AM
> > Subject: Re: ZOMG WHAT ARE WE BUILDING?!
> >
> > From the peanut gallery, feel free to treat accordingly.
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Josh Boyer <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Joe Brockmeier <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> (For those who weren't in today's IRC meeting, I sorta apologize for
> the
> > >> subject line. Sorta.)
> > >>
> > >> As we were discussing today - we need to decide what we are building,
> > >> and (almost as importantly) what we're not building. We've agreed that
> > >> we want to be cooperating with the server SIG, but don't necessarily
> > >> plan to build a foundation for an IaaS ourselves.
> > >>
> > >> Some of the questions that were raised during the meeting:
> > >
> > > Note:  I am a cloud newbie.  Please bear with my stupid questions.
> > >
> > >> - Should we drop 32-bit?
> > >
> > > I was under the impression that 32-bit guests on 64-bit hosts were
> > > fairly common for applications where the advantages of 64-bit address
> > > space isn't needed.  E.g. "64-bit python sucks a lot".  Maybe that's
> > > becoming less of a concern?
> >
> > Agree - lots of situations where 32-bit is preferable, and in many
> > cases still the defacto arch.
>
> It's getting harder and harder to find 32 bit x86 hardware. There's
> exactly one use case for 32 bit in the cloud setting (IMO), which dgilmore
> and I briefly spoke about after the meeting yesterday - extremely memory
> constrained environments. The python memory consumption issues on 64 bit
> fall into that category. Does anyone have other use cases that aren't
> support for older hardware or memory usage with smaller amounts of mem?
>
>
Well the cloud instances aren't running on 32 bit hardware. The cloud
server is probably 64 bit xen but the instances are 128MB -> 256 MB
instances from what I can tell.


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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