March 4, 2015
10:07 p.m.
On 04/03/15 14:19, phil@highoctane.be wrote:
Interesting but not sure I'd like to have images going through decompression everytime I spin them up. Especially if there are a lot of the in a server.
2GB/s is twice as fast as you can get from a fast SSD atm. And as that is per core, that puts a boundary of starting 2200 pharo images/s on a modern dual socket server. After half a minute of that you run out of ram with a 1.5TB ram machine. The bottlenecks might be elsewhere. Norbert wrote:
To be sure if you want that you have to test it. You have always take into account that a smaller file will have less I/O to read from disk.
+1 Stephan