<div dir="ltr">only 3 or 4, i hadn't realised how much it was memory centric when i got the 8350. I might just sell it on and try for something cheaper<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Russell Coker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:russell@coker.com.au" target="_blank">russell@coker.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 14:34:07 Jackson Doak wrote:<br>
> Armidale. I used to volunteer at a e-waste place that had stuff up to core<br>
> 2 duo, but the amd 8 core PCs will run everything at once, no matter what<br>
> it is.<br>
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</div>I've seen quad-core systems in e-waste and got other quad-core systems from my<br>
clients when they upgrade their networks. It's only a matter of time before<br>
8-core systems turn up as e-waste.<br>
<br>
Not that you need an 8-core system to run lots of things at once. In my<br>
experience the limits for virtual machines are RAM and storage. 500G disks<br>
are now coming out as e-waste (EG Dell sell 500G as the minimum disk and<br>
charge more than double the market rate for bigger disks, so every time I<br>
install a Dell server I get a spare 500G disk), so storage isn't the issue.<br>
<br>
Many free systems only have 2 DIMM sockets which generally limits you to 4G of<br>
RAM, that would allow you to run 14 small virtual machines. Some have 4 DIMM<br>
sockets which allows 8G of RAM and 30 small VMs<br>
<br>
How many VMs do you need to run at once?<br>
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