I’ll start sharing various things more earnestly next week. Hate to have to wait until the very very end to offer any value, but like 99% of the earths population was trying to cut me short or talk me out of reason. I did not remember exactly where the trip ended or how sweet it was, but I did remember that you know when you get there, that you have a quarter of a sweater if you cut short and that almost everything that makes the death march even worth contemplating comes at the end.
I’ll likely put up my promised feat attempt tomorrow. I had meant to make it a bit challenging, maybe something I’d offer a good swat at and miss, but I think I probably didn’t aim high enough. I’m sticking to it though, I dumped it in slash some time back: “So I have to deal with an office organizer today, so give me a minute, but to perhaps build up a bit to the boring doc, let me try a feat or two. I’m thinking in a test via the IDE, that’s full of pain vs cmd line or real world. As much RAM as I need though. 4x4 collections, 4 nodes, single test jvm. So 16 cores per collection. Let’s try for say, 1000 collections up and fully active and operational in under 1-2 minutes max. That should be an interesting attempt. Give me a bit of time to get an attempt together. 16000 cores? Is my math off? Single junit based jvm, I will guess I’m gonna need to push up the ram a bit though.” -- - Mark http://about.me/markrmiller
