We're looking for even cheaper bandwidth for streaming audio. Can anyone recommend a vendor to provide 150mbit+ bandwidth on a vps platform or rented server platform?
Yes, it is stuttering right now. Especially when it is in the background. We think this is a buffering issue, but yes. We hope this will be able to go into production soon(tm).
As long as they contain only MP3 files, that would be really really easy to do. If someone does it on Github, please ping me - we'd love to host it on jsmad.org
Those docs refer to ephemeral storage. I haven't seen any claims by Amazon or test results that indicate it is also true for EBS volumes. I have been meaning to test this myself.
gracie:~# time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdl bs=1024k count=10240
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 344.745 seconds, 31.1 MB/s
real 5m44.748s
user 0m0.025s
sys 0m10.152s
gracie:~# time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdl bs=1024k count=10240
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 217.106 seconds, 49.5 MB/s
real 3m37.125s
user 0m0.023s
sys 0m10.268s
gracie:~# time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdl bs=1024k count=10240
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 247.319 seconds, 43.4 MB/s
real 4m7.323s
user 0m0.036s
sys 0m9.794s
EDIT: I ran it a third time just to make sure the results held. I'd still take this with a grain of salt, in my experience EBS i/o results are pretty inconsistent.
Another thing to consider is that EBS offers snapshot backups and is therefore not functionally equivalent to the ephemeral disk which is not durable.
Ephemeral disks offer more predictable performance, especially on the largest instances, however they will not provide the random iops of a raid set of EBS volumes.
Do you RAID them? What size instances do you use? EBS seems susceptible to poor performance when there is contention on your instance's shared network card or contention on the EBS device itself.
Vacuums use sequential IO, so it makes sense that you max out pretty quickly.
Nice work. It would be nice to know which projects have production sites that store the primary copy of data in these projects, as opposed to a secondary copy that is used for fast reads.
I signed up for a newegg.com alert and immediately purchased a 160GB X-25M g2 for ~$450 minutes after they announced they had stock. I put it in a late 2006 mac mini (1.8GHz Intel Core 1 duo) and it has transformed the feel of the computer. There are far fewer pauses. Big apps launch instantly. Extremely satisfying.
The only problem is that it started reporting S.M.A.R.T. errors.
Exactly. Not sure how this bit of "gotcha" suddenly popped up in so many places, but it's missing the point. If you read the article, Krugman isn't saying that a housing bubble is a good idea at all. What he's saying, in essence, is that the only way to avoid a recession (again, this was in 2002) was for Greenspan and the Fed to kick off a housing bubble to sustain consumer spending. And, by implication, that that was unlikely to work.
As it happened, he was wrong about that. We did experience a housing bubble (although one driven more by irresponsible bank behavior than by interest rates), and it did keep consumer spending high for the next 4-5 years. And, now that it's popped, we're experiencing the recession that Krugman predicted. He was just off by a few years, and missed one proximate cause.
Krugman is not to fault for the recession I agree. But he is still advocating the theory of creating a new bubble to keep us from the effects of a previous bubble. I would have more respect for him if he had a solution to reign in the bubble he said the US had to create to fight of the recession.
I'm not a mises guy; I'm just trying to bring more awareness that economists at large aren't much different from criminal profilers and tarot card readers.
