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Re:OnMetal: The Right Way To Scale by jayofdoom on Thursday June 19, 2014 @03:25PM (#7917840)
Honestly? Using 512GB of ram is pretty hard. I learned during some of this that you can actually get tmpfs to be CPU limited if you try to write to it too quickly.
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Re:OnMetal: The Right Way To Scale by mbell on Thursday June 19, 2014 @09:08PM (#7919085)
> Honestly? Using 512GB of ram is pretty hard.

It's extremely easy. Insert 512GB of data into postgres, there, done.

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Re:OnMetal: The Right Way To Scale by Serow225 on Thursday June 19, 2014 @09:32PM (#7919132)
Not if you are in Oil and Gas :)
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