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Re:Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRippe... by ksec on Friday January 29, 2021 @01:30PM (#25960621)
I just love this article. Especially when the norm is always about scaling out instead of scaling up. We can have 128 Core CPU, 2TB Memory, PCI-E 4.0 SSD, ( and soon PCI-E 5.0 ). We could even fit a Petabyte in 1U for SSD Storage.

I remember WhatsApp used to operate its 500M user with only a dozen of large FreeBSD boxes. ( Only to be taken apart by Facebook )

So Thank you for raising awareness. Hopefully the pendulum is swinging back to conceptually simple design.

>I also have a 380 GB Intel Optane 905P SSD for low latency writes

I would love to see that. Although I am waiting for someone to do a review on the Optane SSD P5800X [1]. Random 4K IOPS up to 1.5M with lower than 6us Latency.

[1] https://www.servethehome.com/new-intel-optane-p5800x-100-dwp...

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Re:Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRippe... by phkahler on Friday January 29, 2021 @02:53PM (#25961562)
>> I remember WhatsApp used to operate its 500M user with only a dozen of large FreeBSD boxes.

With 1TB of RAM you can have 256 bytes for every person on earth live in memory. With SSD either as virtual memory or keeping an index in RAM, you can do meaningful work in real time, probably as fast as the network will allow.

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Re:Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRippe... by zie on Friday January 29, 2021 @11:24PM (#25966023)
My math doesn't compute with yours:

depending on how you define a TB(memory tends to favour the latter definition, but YMMV):

1,000,000,000,000 / 7.8billion = 128.21 bytes per human.

1,099,511,627,776 / 7.8billion = 140.96 bytes per human.

population source via Wikipedia.

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Re:Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRippe... by swader999 on Friday January 29, 2021 @09:45PM (#25965507)
Faster then they can type!
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Re:Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRippe... by rektide on Friday January 29, 2021 @03:05PM (#25961706)
Intel killing off prosumer optane 2 weeks ago[1] made me so so so sad.

The new P5800X should be sick.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25805779

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Re:Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRippe... by texasbigdata on Friday January 29, 2021 @02:51PM (#25961543)
Second on Optane.
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