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Re:Why the data center needs an operating system by thrownaway2424 on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @03:06PM (#8696037)
Absolutely. In-core on a neighboring machine can be accessed in less than 1ms. On-disk on the local machine (or any machine) can take tens of seconds.
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Re:Why the data center needs an operating system by chetanahuja on Thursday December 04, 2014 @12:47AM (#8698007)
"On-disk on the local machine (or any machine) can take tens of seconds"

Surely you meant 10's of milliseconds. But even so, fastest SSD random access latencies are in sub-millisecond ranges.

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Re:Why the data center needs an operating system by thrownaway2424 on Thursday December 04, 2014 @11:06AM (#8699894)
No I did not mean that. Contended local disk access under heavy random read/write workloads takes essentially forever.
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