<story><title>Linode NextGen: The Hardware</title><url>http://blog.linode.com/2013/03/18/linode-nextgen-the-hardware/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grey-area</author><text>According to the linode FAQ [1], current linode servers have roughly 20GB of RAM shared out. Does anyone know the spec of the new servers and what the max memory would be? The max for the CPU seems to be 750GB [2]. Presumably servers would be far less than the theoretical max, but fingers crossed they&apos;ll be able to bump the memory at some point soon so that they&apos;re a bit more competitive with others.&lt;p&gt;I was really hoping that was going to be this announcement, however the fact they&apos;ve titled it &apos;The Hardware&apos; hints that there might be nothing new on RAM in the next announcement, which would be a shame. Upgrades to CPU are nice, but it&apos;d be nicer to see a RAM upgrade, as almost everyone is constrained on RAM rather than CPU or disk, particularly on newer hardware and with their new bandwidth limits.&lt;p&gt;I feel rather ungrateful now having said all that. Thanks anyway Linode!&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linode.com/faq.cfm#how-many-linodes-share-a-host&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.linode.com/faq.cfm#how-many-linodes-share-a-host&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://ark.intel.com/products/64595/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2670-20M-Cache-2_60-GHz-8_00-GTs-Intel-QPI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ark.intel.com/products/64595/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Linode NextGen: The Hardware</title><url>http://blog.linode.com/2013/03/18/linode-nextgen-the-hardware/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trotsky</author><text>I&apos;m not super up on os level virtualization providers, but I&apos;m curious why exposing 8 cores is an advantage. Based on the ram sizing it seems like they expect to run 100+ containers per processor - so surely they&apos;re restricting cpu time per process (instance) somehow. If you use a bunch of cpu time won&apos;t you just get starved out when you hit an invisible cpu wall? If you&apos;re only getting 1/10th or less of a cpu core wouldn&apos;t it make more sense to pin each instance to just a couple of cores minimizing context switches?</text></comment>