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Are these numbers right? http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/8227/picture9sh1.png http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/8227/picture9sh1.png That equates to like 2
by auston 18y ago
Are these numbers right? http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/8227/picture9sh1.png http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/8227/picture9sh1.png
That equates to like 24 gigs of RAM per server!?
[Update: I thought 8GB was big (& 16GB was huge) - just from my limited experience - http://www.slicehost.com/ http://www.slicehost.com/]
- andr 18y agoWith high-end server motherboards having as many as 16 memory slots and 8GB DIMMs existing on the market, it's certainly possible. http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5400/X7DWN+.cfm http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5400/X7D...
- blader 18y agoWe run 32 GB on our DB servers ... may be going to 64 GB soon.
- ojbyrne 18y agoI've been playing with 6 boxes, 32 gigs each.
- tdavis 18y agoOur main box has 32gb ...
- andrewf 18y agoRAM is disproportionately expensive on leased/managed servers; afaik it's just the pricing model that hosting companies established in the past (when RAM accounted for more of the total hardware cost compared to now), and the industry has stuck with it.
- gojomo 18y agoWay back in May 2007, Facebook reported using 200 16GB memcached servers, and suggested 32GB servers were soon on the way: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.cache.memcached/3224 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.cache.memcached/3224 Big, popular services don't skimp when fighting latency.
- paddy_m 18y agoread this from mysqlperformanceblog http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/08/04/128gb-or-ram-finally-got-cheap/ http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/08/04/128gb-or-ram-...