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From: "Jeffrey Ollie" <jeff@ocjtech.us>
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
And you whisk all that away with "it's not really clear to me that 'reboots in seconds' is a think to be optimized"????
False dilemma. [ snip ] 10 seconds from power on to user interface for desktops, will meaningfully improve the user experience, but not for servers.
It's a false dilemma only if you're thinking about traditional physical servers. Consider:
1) What if you're spinning up several thousand Hadoop nodes on AWS or GCE so that you can do some sort of "big data" operation.
2) What if PewDiePie just mentioned one of your products in a video and you need to quickly scale up the number of backend servers to handle the load.
I'm sure that there are many other scenarios that I could devise where a fast "server" boot time was important.
I will stipulate this use case. I will counter with "you wouldn't be running a "real" distro in that case anyway; you'd be running something super trimmed down, and possibly custom built, or based on something like CoreOS, that only does one job. Well. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274