> I'd like to ask a question, but before I do, feel I should say, I've > been on this list long enough to understand that Plan 9 is a research > vessel, not an OS that's targeted at commercial deployment...
i can't agree with this label "research os" if you mean to imply that it's not stable or somehow unfinished. i run the company's infastructure on plan 9 and our main product — that is my paycheck — depends on plan 9. i spend a lot less time fixing things now than i did when i ran a different company's infastructure on aix and linux. i also suffer much less downtime. on the other hand, if by "research os" you mean simple and flexable, then i couldn't agree more. > That being said, while huge scalability is certainly research-worthy, > does anyone actually run anything on Plan 9 that needs or would > otherwise benefit from 8+ CPUs and more than a few GB's of RAM? this style product will easily scale to that level http://tinyurl.com/5e3q9p [coraid.com] the real question is can you find a big enough chassis. if that doesn't compel you, running upas imap server for ~40 users with 1.3gb of inboxes might. since upas has the bad manners to load the entire mailbox, we're using about 90% of the 3.5gb bios will spare us in 32bit mode. i also watched it at 100% cpu for a solid hour yesterday. it's embarassing that mail is such a hog. this is our scalability plan: /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/src/nupas/ - erik