[Cialug] OT Developer productivity - was: Which software to use for a SAN

[Jeff Davis]

Each person is currently allocated 2 vCPUs and 3GB ram.
Out of 13 developers I've only gotten one complaint about the display
not refreshing fast enough.
This person is trying to scroll through a very large document and you
can see a bit of sluggishness.
I haven't found the cause of that yet, but I suspect it may be a latency issue.

Overall performance has been quite good.  One of the tests was using a
mini 10 tethered to a droid,
then using a windows 7 VM through the vWorkspace SSL gateway.
Browsing around was just like a
workstation and I had no problems playing a quick game on www.google.com/pacman

-Jeff



On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Zachary Kotlarek <zach at kotlarek.com> wrote:
>>
>> Depending on load the VM setup could actually be faster than any desktop
>> they could reasonably have, since you're running on hardware that's natively
>> much faster -- a HS22 blade is not a slow machine and it's unlikely that
>> everyone is going to have 2x Xeon-5600 workstations connected to a Fibre SAN
>> at their desk.
>>
>> Obviously if everyone hits compile at the same time, or if there are
>> enough VMs that memory/etc. is limited that will not be true, but if peak
>> usage is non-simultanious and each VM has enough resources the VM setup
>> could be faster for the short bursts of intensive use you're talking about.
>
> What about display refreshing? As I'm picturing this in my mind I think of
> something like Terminal Server which often don't have quite as fast of a
> display update as my desktop.
>
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