Tom Duerbusch wrote:
Compared to the mainframe, an Intel based system, can't do I/Os. And
There's a storage benchmark site around (I found it, forgot where) where storage vendors' product benchmarks are ranked - sort of like top500.org. but oriented towards storage performance and prices. I recall IBM, HP, FJ amongst those present. I got the impression it's not just IA32 that can't do I/O....
since on that platform, memory is cheap, they want lots of memory for caching. IMHO, that is not a good trade off in the "shared" mainframe world, unless you are really pumping I/Os thru.
I'm very interested to see how this changes now virtualisation is becoming mainstream, with Xen in SLES 10 and RHEL 5, and Intel and AMD support in hardware. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not reply off-list ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
