On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Owen Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > We're definitely moving into that direction - vbox.gnome.org is a 32G > server with 4 VMs running on it. > Excellent! You'll save a lot of money for Red Hat in terms of electrical/heat/cooling. > > My ideal architecture for the gnome.org looks something like: > > vbox: git, bugzilla, etc. > drawable: databases > label: LDAP and Mango > "hbox": replaces menubar, window, similar machine to vbox > "bin": storage server replacing container > > So drop down from the current 8 servers to 5. I don't see a reason > to have more than that unless we start doing more ambitious things > than we do now (e.g., end-user oriented infrastructure.) > Well pie in teh sky stuff is always fun.. hopefully we could do something like that. > > > Well, I'll ask around, but white boxes are going to be a bitch to get > > someone to do a support contract for. > > My thought was that we might be able to use a small fast SSD in an > accelerator role - put speed critical stuff on it, if it fails, then > it fails, and we fall back to the system drives without any major > disruption. > > Yeah, let me see what I can do. > But it was really just a random thought; a real proposal would require: > > A) Where are we currently bottlenecked on random access IO. > (I'm not aware of any of our current services where that is the > case, but I may be missing something.) > > A') What services could we provide that we aren't currently providing > that could be made to scale out with 32-64G of really fast > storage. > > B) How *would* we handle failure (I don't have much of an idea about > failure rates of SSDs. Probably nobody does :-) > > Maybe we should have that as an agenda item at some point and see if we could investigate such things. It would be a learning experience for me. I'm more of a storage network fileserver kind of guy than a strictly client person. So I'm pretty rusty but it might be fun. :) sri
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