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When building distributed systems, service degradation means you’ll have to provision more systems. Cheaper to provision fewer systems with more RAM.
by adastra22 1y ago
When building distributed systems, service degradation means you’ll have to provision more systems. Cheaper to provision fewer systems with more RAM.
- eru 1y agoIt depends on what you are doing, and how your system behaves. If you size your RAM and swap right, you get no service degradation, but still get away with using less RAM. But when I was at Google (about a decade ago), they followed exactly the philosophy you were outlining and disabled swap.