[brlug-general] Slicehost?

[Brad Bendily]

On 8/29/07, Joe Fruchey <jfruchey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >From the FAQ:
>
> How does the CPU scheduling work?
>
> Each Slice is assigned a fixed weight based on the memory size (256,
> 512 and 1024 megabytes). So a 1024 has 4x the cycles as a 256 under
> load. However, if there are free cycles on a machine, all Slices can
> consume CPU time. This creates a leveraged environment that allows
> smaller Slices to likely consume cycles as needed, but still protects
> larger Slices that require higher loads.

And here is the specs on the CPU on the system i'm on.
It's 4 processors, with Dual Core AMDs.

model name      : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 270
cpu MHz         : 1994.989

So, it's a pretty speedy box, for the most part.
My guess is that they have maybe 8GB of ram each system and then break
down the slices with Xen?

bb