3amOpsGuy

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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
I don't think that's strictly true. With cassandra you choose where the extra reads (or writes) to ensure consistency occur as best suits your use case: * At write time (write quorum) like a traditional replicated datastore * At read time (
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
The top answer seems wrong to me. >> a process can have more memory than address space How does that work? The best I can come up with is the author is referring to mmap? In which case the address space is still limited to 4Gb altho
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
>> I'm assuming this is 1000 vs 1024 issue It'll likely be your graphics card uses a portion of your main RAM for its memory. This is common.
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
I feel like I want these guys to succeed just because Patrick seems such a nice guy, have enjoyed reading the threads.
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
Haha, a page of comments (well, 3/4, i stopped scrolling, seen enough!) on HN from Americans living up to their stereotypes. Top work guys :-P
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
Ha, typical. I just bought this last week. It's ace though even at 1.99 or whatever it cost me. When I say ace, expected limitations apply, however with a fully working network and threading library, it's no hassle to extend SimpleHTTPServe
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
The ability to JOIN (even if it is limited to 8Mb) is pretty useful for a couple of specific use cases we came up against recently. It can reduce the disk (& therefore more importantly, cache) space requirements of the materialised view
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
I built a dashboard (very pretty if i do say so myself!) using the ITRS Geneos product. Management love it. The operations guys, not so much. Why? We have plenty of tasks we could constructively spend our time on rather watschen der blinken