On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, paultz wrote: > "IBM's premier virtualization technology, z/VM, in the upcoming year. z/VM > helps enable mainframe customers to run tens to even hundreds of instances > of the Linux operating system on a single IBM zSeries server." > > Tens or hundreds? Small potatoes next to Test Plans Charlie and Omega. ;-)
It's time someone tried for new records there: that's quite old now, and IBM has new boxes. Other than "it depends," how many copies is a reasonable upper limit? Where do the VM overheads become too significant? Are there workloads that will fully load a top-end zBox running one copy of Linux, and if so, is this as sensible as tens of thousands of copies? -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb Copyright John Summerfield. Reproduction prohibited.
