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I would like more information on how they reached this conclusion. “Comatose servers are those that have not delivered information or computing services in six
by andmarios 11y ago
I would like more information on how they reached this conclusion. “Comatose servers are those that have not delivered information or computing services in six months or more” doesn't tell me enough.
Are these servers unsold resources? Are they hot spares? How many bytes of traffic and how many CPU cycles count as computing services? How much do they cost versus the cost of the whole datacenter including employees? Looking at other industries, is a 70% yield really that low?
- jldugger 11y agoThe paper makes it clear they're not counting servers waiting to be provisioned. But they're not so clear on how the tool makes the distinction, or how they know to exclude hot spares.