RE: [ASF4.2.1] default to 64-bit system VM template

2013-10-28 Thread Animesh Chaturvedi
> -Original Message- > From: Wido den Hollander [mailto:w...@widodh.nl] > Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 11:24 PM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: [ASF4.2.1] default to 64-bit system VM template > > On 10/23/2013 07:32 AM, Abhinandan Prateek wro

Re: [ASF4.2.1] default to 64-bit system VM template

2013-10-24 Thread Abhinandan Prateek
Looked at the scripts found minor differences have fixed those commit 499a8c0915dd25b3d9c813aa1b715ba9ba865ffb. On 24/10/13 5:47 am, "Darren Shepherd" wrote: >Slightly off topic but I've noticed that the scripts used to create the >vm templates are slightly out of sync between 32bit and 64bit.

Re: [ASF4.2.1] default to 64-bit system VM template

2013-10-23 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
32-bit vms also "generally" perform better on XenServer (depending on the workload). The issue with 32-bit Linux is that it has usually only has 800M for so for available for the kernel [1]. This limits the number of connections that can be tracked by the conntrack module to around 800/300 =~ 2.5 m

Re: [ASF4.2.1] default to 64-bit system VM template

2013-10-23 Thread Darren Shepherd
Slightly off topic but I've noticed that the scripts used to create the vm templates are slightly out of sync between 32bit and 64bit. I just assumed nobody used 64bit and that's why it got out of sync. Darren > On Oct 23, 2013, at 7:21 AM, Marty Sweet wrote: > > What would be the main reaso

Re: [ASF4.2.1] default to 64-bit system VM template

2013-10-23 Thread Marty Sweet
What would be the main reasoning behind this change? Surely the minimalistic specifications that SystemVMs are assigned suit 32-bit better in terms of Memory? "The main disadvantage of 64-bit architectures is that, relative to 32-bit architectures, the same data occupies more space in memory (due

Re: [ASF4.2.1] default to 64-bit system VM template

2013-10-23 Thread Abhinandan Prateek
On 23/10/13 3:48 pm, "David Nalley" wrote: >On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Abhinandan Prateek > wrote: >> >> We are planning to make 64-bit system vm templates as default >>offering in 4.2.1. >> This is an initial email to have thoughts from the community on this. >> >> -abhi > >-1 >Who is t

Re: [ASF4.2.1] default to 64-bit system VM template

2013-10-23 Thread David Nalley
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Abhinandan Prateek wrote: > > We are planning to make 64-bit system vm templates as default offering in > 4.2.1. > This is an initial email to have thoughts from the community on this. > > -abhi -1 Who is this we? I agree with Wido We adhere to semver, and acc

Re: [ASF4.2.1] default to 64-bit system VM template

2013-10-22 Thread Wido den Hollander
On 10/23/2013 07:32 AM, Abhinandan Prateek wrote: We are planning to make 64-bit system vm templates as default offering in 4.2.1. This is an initial email to have thoughts from the community on this. I'd say -1. Since it is going to be a minor upgrade and although this seems like a ha