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Most interesting part in this great upgrade is that they went from 8CPU setup to 2CPU setup. But yeah - 2x more RAM, SSDs will guarantee that I'm not going to s
by endijs 12y ago
Most interesting part in this great upgrade is that they went from 8CPU setup to 2CPU setup.
But yeah - 2x more RAM, SSDs will guarantee that I'm not going to switch anytime soon.
Sadly I need to wait a week until this will be available in London.
- eli 12y ago"vCPU" In a virtualized environment, the number of "CPUs" you can see is probably not a great way to measure how much computing power you have.
- stefantalpalaru 12y agoOn a host that's mostly idle and where there are no CPU usage caps, seeing 2 cores instead of 8 is a pretty serious drawback if you use Gentoo on Linode like I do.
- andypants 12y agoThey did upgrade the cpus though - "Linodes will now receive Intel’s latest high-end Ivy Bridge E5-2680.v2 full-power server-grade processors."
- endijs 12y agoYes. That's good. And Caker also wrote in blog comments: "We’ve greatly reduced the contention on these new machines compared to our old structure, and in testing this new arrangement provides much more consistent CPU time with less potential for steal. We think it’s great and totally worth the move, otherwise we wouldn’t have done it." So by their estimates 2 now should outperform previous 8.
- spyder 12y agoOne comment on their blog post says that after the change he is getting lower performance on a CPU-heavy test (vanitygen): https://blog.linode.com/2014/04/17/linode-cloud-ssds-double-ram-much-more/#comment-633353 https://blog.linode.com/2014/04/17/linode-cloud-ssds-double-... IO is probably more important for most of the peoples who use VPS, but It would be good to see CPU test from others too, not just IO benchmarks.