Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> writes: > Ok, I guess I'll do some quick numbers.... > > Quoting Nick.T.Reinking at supervalu.com (Nick.T.Reinking at supervalu.com): > > I've never understood why people are so damned fascinated with > > Linux on the S/390. I get to work on SuSE/390, and it really isn't that > > impressive. The box isn't any more responsive than the Linux PC on > > my desk. Sure, you can put lots of them on one box - but if you're wanting > > to actually save money, you're better off buying small boxes. Or, buying > > a higher end Sun box and just intelligently administrating it. > > I have to disagree. Let's say you can runn 4,000 instance of linux on 1 > Z-Series. That is 1 electrical run. 1 large UPS. 1 port on a switch. 1 rack. > 10 sq feet of space to house it. Put what you think it cost here to just get the > hardware. What power does that class of hardware take these days? Still 440Hz? And 4000 seems grotesquely excessive. Can it support the net bandwidth needed for that? Or even the CPU rate? Or the disk IO rate? -- David Dyer-Bennet / Welcome to the future! / dd-b at dd-b.net SF: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ Minicon: http://www.mnstf.org/minicon/ Photos: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/