Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 22:31:23 -0700 From: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@geli.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New lmbench available (fwd) Message-ID: <199510270531.WAA05178@geli.clusternet> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Oct 1995 21:34:54 PDT." <16298.814768494@time.cdrom.com>
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> > > Sorry folks, my ISP is downgrading from FreeBSD Pentiums to SGI > > > multiprocessor boxes (no offense Larry ;-), so guess what, I've been > > > basically hosed for the last three days. > > > > You went from FAST machines to SLOW machines? Why in earth would you do > > that? > > Actually, they're not the only ones. BEST did the same thing and > apparently the SGI is working fairly well for them.. But hey, let's > compare apples with apples here.. The SGI machines are multiprocessor > R4000 boxes costing tens of thousands of dollars, and a fully loaded > P5 system will run you $5K or so.. ahem. cough. "BEST" is my ISP... and there is more fun to come, seems we have had a (and I paraphrase here) "sophisticated and persistant" attack that has killed the SGIs in many interesting ways. All through this the lonely little P5-90 box with the NCR controller running a July kernel is just chugging along, so web service has been unaffected, as far as I can tell. > > The big problem all ISPs are having is that this stuff just doesn't > scale very well. If you could just drop another P5 into the soup and > "cluster" it transparently then we'd be looking at a whole 'nother > ballgame, but.. This kind of forces the really big ISPs into doing > exactly what Russell's ISP has done.. :-( So here is a market opportunity: how do you scale a bunch of httpd servers working in concert (maybe like timed?) so that when one goes down, the remainders elect a master and life goes on? Cheers, Russell > > Jordan >
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