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Genuine Question: Can anyone give an example of something useful that has been done with this OS, or is planned for the very near future?
by krmmalik 15y ago
Genuine Question: Can anyone give an example of something useful that has been done with this OS, or is planned for the very near future?
- nivertech 15y agoyou can run Redis on it or any other simple single-threaded server
- ch0wn 15y agoI wonder how hard it would be to port redis and how it performance would compare.
- nivertech 15y agoI don't have a link, but something similar was done with custom kernels with Redis compiled to run native above Xen - the performance gain was only ~ 13% - so in this case it didn't worth the trouble. But if you a large HPC cluster, getting 13% more of each compute node definitely worth the trouble. EDITED: see link in child's post
- davej 15y agoNot EC2, but is this what you are thinking about?… http://openfoo.org/blog/redis-native-xen.html http://openfoo.org/blog/redis-native-xen.html
- kwis 15y agoThat's interesting, though I think my takeaway was that the "performance tax" of the operating system layer is pretty minor, all things considered.
- krmmalik 15y agoThanks for the replies!
- mritun 15y agoI doubt that since the OS doesn't support even TCP/IP, any kind of filesystem or even POSIX APIs. It'd be hard to even port Redis to it, let alone get anything useful done in absence of TCP/IP