alt Hacker NewsUsing 512gb of ram for a 22gb remote file does feel a bit weird for a benchmark but maybe they couldn’t get a large number of cores without lots of memory?
Using 512gb of ram for a 22gb remote file does feel a bit weird for a benchmark but maybe they couldn’t get a large number of cores without lots of memory?
Most cloud providers start with a 2:1 ratio of memory in GiB to CPU cores and go up from there. Databases also are the most common workload for large-memory systems because they benefit so much from large buffer caches.