On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 12:33:45PM -0800, Ariel Faigon wrote:
> - Scalability: up to 256 CPUs
I can tell than an O2K with 64 CPUS works quite well when the hardware
isn't failing, but the hardware is often failing...
> - Guaranteed Real Time response (kernel is preemptible
> i.e. you can have multiple system calls executing in server
> space simultaneously.
Linux 2.1.* is very preemtible, even if there are stil some things to
do.
> - A real journalling filesystem (XFS). Reboot doesn't
> require a lenghty 'fsck'. Even if you have a terabyte
> filesystem the filesystem check takes one second or so.
xfs is _very_ good.
> - Bandwidth (I/O networking) e.g. 4 GB/sec write to
> RAID disks.
Interesting. Our "local" SGI vendor (i.e. the one for France), told
us that 1GB/sec write speed was too much and he could only guarantee
800MB/sec for our 1TB raid array.
> Note that Linux doesn't even support big files (more than 4 GB)
> on x86, while IRIX supports many terabyte files.
The limit on x86 is 2GB. To be fair, said terabyte files and
filesystems are connected to systems with a 64bits architecture.
Afaik, linux on alpha handles terabytes files.
OG.
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