Sadly they're moderating comments. I tweeted at the author, with links to
WMF Ganglia as backup, and he definitely doesn't believe me; maybe
something from a WMFer would help, if anyone thinks it's worth correcting:
https://twitter.com/hassankhosseini/status/370090365354655744
Going by the Ganglia pages, actual Wikipedia has at lesat >2x the *RAM*
that their scenario has *disk*. Pretty fun. (If you're curious, Ganglia's
front page says it's tracking 14,744 cores on 988 hosts and 40T of RAM.
Their scenario has <20T disk. There may be additional capacity not in that
Ganglia setup, though it seemed to cover the obvious stuff.)
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:23 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 21 August 2013 16:12, hoo <hoo(a)online.de>
wrote:
Am I wrong or did they actually calculate that
for labs only (which
would be rather funny)?
At least they link to
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Ask/-5B-5BResource-20Type::inst…
that run on up to 385 instances [...]") which AFAIK doesn't have
any production servers.
Heh. Please do post a comment of correction and post it here too, so
it doesn't just vanish ;-)
- d.
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