sirjee

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   by sirjee 2y ago

   Usually Google applications uses high level network storage services like collosus, BigTable or spanner and these high level services are backed by dedicated storage appliances where they bypass the kernel for SSDs and use direct block IO f
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   by sirjee 2y ago

   BTW company-1 == Google and company-2 == FB/Meta. In addition, Google has completely removed local storage from their servers, so there is no disk I/O at all.
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   by sirjee 2y ago

   Linux have madvise(MADV_DONTNEED).
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   by sirjee 4y ago

   How does this compare with Google's software defined far memory: https://research.google/pubs/pub48551/ ?
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   by sirjee 5y ago

   Not sure I understand the relationship between real-time guarantees and performance.
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   by sirjee 5y ago

   He was conflating jews with Israeli government and zionists, so I can assume he was unread on the topic.
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   by sirjee 5y ago

   No we should not accuse but as the citizen of such a regime I should feel responsible of its actions, I should condemn it and may be expect accusations of supporting such a regime.
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   by sirjee 5y ago

   Pretty sure he was not chief diversity officer 14 years ago but I agree it should have been "If I were an israeli...".