[Gllug] Lindows

[David Damerell]

On Friday, 23 Nov 2001, robin.c.smith at bt.com wrote:
>I had a meeting with IBM about Linux 390 and they said that the applications
>we could run are limited to those
>that don't use too much memory or those that don't use lots of CPU. So

As I think we said last time around, this is as compared to their
high-end UNIX iron; yes, the real strength of mainframes is in I/O not
number-crunching, but they're still pretty hefty boxes.

I think you can bet that running 4,000 copies of Apache uses a fair
bit of memory.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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