Re: Fwd: IDS i/o and Solaris

Clive Eisen wrote: > Ian Michael Gumby wrote: >> On Nov 6, 8:48 am, Ian Goddard <godda...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> Art Kagel wrote: >>> >> >>>> He is stuck in filesystem and whole file IO and has no understanding of >>>> the realities of the database world! <SIGH!> >>>> >>>> Art >>>> >>> I agree with your comment. It calls into question the future of Linux >>> as a platform for serious databases. >>> >>> -- >>> Ian >>> >> Absolutely not! >> Take the comments made by Linus with a grain of salt. There are still >> several things that discount the issues that could be raised... >> > OK >> First there's this guy named Moore who created this funny thing called >> "Moore's Law" that computing power will double every 18 months. So >> far, in the last 20+ years, his law has held true. >> >> > But - I want ALL of that performance increase. >> Add to this ... HP's new research in their "memresistor" not sure what >> they are calling it. Its in fact potentially a new fast non-volitile >> memory that could replace the hard drive as we know it. Not to mention >> that there's a paradigm shift in application designs (cloud) that >> reduce the reliance on pulling data from disk in real time. >> > I couldn't agree with you less - most commercial entities like their > confidential data where they can see it. >> And of course the bigger issue. What sort of applications are put on >> Linux machines as database servers? They are for their most part not >> apps that require fast I/O performance. You can take a hit on the OS I/ >> O but make up for it using technologies like SAS or U320 SCSI over >> SATA drives. (Add in the fiber channels etc ...) >> > So what - I paid for this x.y.z.a.b.c gizzmo but I can't get the best > out of it because why? > Because Linus bloody somebody says so. > Oh - right - thanks. Time for some nice looking racks full of blue lights :o) -- Cheers, Obnoxio The Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com