---- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeffrey Ollie" <j...@ocjtech.us>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Barry Shein <b...@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 j...@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
