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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