On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, c chan wrote:
> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:21:34 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
> From: c chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Jonathan Vanasco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> modperl <modperl@perl.apache.org>
> Subject: Re: Amazon
>
> Hi there,
>
> I normally don't borge into a thread like this since I am not an active user
> of mod_perl.
>
> But have you noticed how cheap memory is these days? You can set up a dual 64
> bit processers server with 4Gig bytes of memory and set up 10 VM on the same
> machine. It is extremely fast and efficient, and much easy to manage.
>
> All these VM virtualization technology is driving the cost of ownership down
> tremendously. And then each application runs faster because each has its own
> VM and a fix partition of memory. Why make software scalable while you can
> scale using cheap hardware and virtualization? Then you can deploy simply and
> primitive systems built by outsourced global development centers on these new
> hardware platforms.
I don't really want to start an argument that is off-topic anyway, but with all
the overhead
and quirks of virtualisation, performance is actually weird (a new way of
describing performance).
Regards,
Jie
