[ale] KDE, Gnome, XFCE OT?

[Jim Kinney]

On Mar 28, 2016 11:15 AM, "DJ-Pfulio" <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
>
> On 03/28/2016 09:54 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > My tuning time costs more than an extra pair of 16GB DIMMS.
>
> Fine.
> Deploy with way too much.
> Monitor for 2+ months.
> See that 512MB is needed and 1 CPU.
> Spend 10 seconds to reduce the memory allocation and CPU to the VM. Next
> reboot, solved.  System monitoring isn't a waste of time.
> Right-sizing isn't a waste of time.
>
> Being able to have 5 more VMs per physical server **is** a cost savings,
> after all.  We aren't aiming for 100% utilization, 80% on CPU is fine.
> Having a little free RAM for VM spikes is useful too.
>
> BTW, KVM does core memory sharing too, these days.  No need to spend
> $12K for VM licenses, plus $1K for any addon - you know - like backup
> software.  VMware is impressive and at that price, it should be.

Ovirt will happily use mem sharing. Very useful! Even though I get vmware
for free as edu license allows, I much prefer the open source tools. I
reserve the vmware for the macbook toters who want a Linux vm. They just
don't get that they are using things backwards.

>
> I need to go away now. Have an idea.
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