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The state of the pageout scalability patches

The state of the pageout scalability patches

Posted Jun 19, 2008 4:07 UTC (Thu) by jwb (guest, #15467)
Parent article: The state of the pageout scalability patches

A system with 128GB of memory is completely within the reach of most businesses these days.  I
priced out a machine today with 32 CPU cores and 128GB of memory.  It was $51000 on the list
price.


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The state of the pageout scalability patches

Posted Jun 19, 2008 6:16 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

I recently priced a 4-socket opteron box with 128G of ram at ~$25K. I ended up buying the
2-socket boxs which are limited to 'only' 64G

these aren't the $2-3k 1u pizzabox machines that companies like to buy in large numbers for
clusters, but if you have apps that don't cluster well (or have per-machine licensing) they
can still be a _very_ good deal.

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