[geeks] Compuholics anonymous

[Chris Byrne]

There are really five reasons to have multiple machines doing the work that
a single more powerful machine could do

1. I/O and/or memory bandwidth (more sessions, reduced contention etc...)
2. Logical and administrative segmentation
3. Security (logically and physically isolating functions and access from
each other)
4. Redundancy and fault tolerance
5. Coolness factor

Any one of those alone is a good enough reason to use multiple systems, but
all four combined, hey you can't beat it. Unless that is you have a nicely
loaded mainframe which pretty much hoses any of those four reasons, and is
only one (really really big) box to administer.

Chris Byrne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
> Of Joshua D Boyd
> Sent: 29 April 2002 06:00
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Compuholics anonymous
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:41:18AM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:46:18AM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > >
> > > It's not about what needs you have.  It's about what needs
> you can invent.
> > > Do you have a dedicated usenet spool yet?  A dedicated boot
> server?  If
> > > so, play with distributed databases.
> >
> > not counting the workstation i sit at, i've got a stack of 6
> sparc boxes
> > in the "facility" that i can't live without.  could i consolidate them
> > onto one more powerful sparc box?  sure.  would i want to?  hell no.
>
> I couldn't consolidate them.  In my past experience, that is a recipe for
> disaster.
>
> --
> Joshua D. Boyd
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