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32bit vs 64bit guest VM and RAM usage

Why does a 32bit domU (Xen guest VM) use less RAM than a 64bit? Notes: The same software complied for a different arch(AMD64 vs. 686). Obviously this is Linux or BSD or something easily ported. Maybe this is also a good one for SO. I've read this is…
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Installing a clean Python 2.6 on SuSE (SLES) 11 using system-wide libraries

I've spent most of the day on this, and it is driving me absolutely insane. On all other Unixes I've used, this is a walk in the park, but SLES 11 has me dumbfounded. I need to build Zope on SLES 11 64 bit: Linux 2.6.27.45-0.1-default #1 SMP…
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Hardware RAID status on SMBUS architecture

This question is kind of theoretical, but I found no other StackExchange site to suite it better. I would like to know a little more about SMBUS and if it is possible to collect data from random PCI-E controller via SMBUS. My current conclusions…
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Reverse Proxy failover scenarios?

I currently have 2 apache web-servers that run ldirectord/heartbeat to load balance between them. Whenever I reboot one of the web-servers, or take it down for maintenance, ldirectord automatically fails over to run on the live web-server, and…
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Forward traffic to a redundant container if master fails in Kubernetes

I have a k8 cluster with a backend service (BS) and a database service (DS). DS has a pod that contains a single PgBouncer container (a proxy for a Postgres server). BS sends its database requests to DS which routes back to this single pod. I want…
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(Dis-)Advantages of using HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 for backend connections (reverse proxy -> backend)?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using HTTP/2 or even HTTP/3 for connections between reverse proxies and backends? I haven't really come across this and only ever see H2 and H2 deployed in front of reverse proxies and CDNs. ASFIK H2 and…
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AWS Architecture Advice - multiple EC2 instances with shared database / file system with dynamic start and stop

I am very new at cloud architecture but have decent application development experience. Right now, I am in the process of making a large computational pipeline more accessible to 5-10 users via a web application and am setting this all up in…
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Benefits of separate RDBMS server

I'd like to compare the benefits of two hosting architectures for a small server (meaning a 2-core CPU and 250GB SSD, with 100GB dedicated for data, is more than enough), consisting mostly of a custom application providing web services, with a REST…
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Sun 280R architecture

How do I find out which architecture my Sun 280R is based on (eg . 501-6485 or 501-6690 etc) The command arch returns "sun4". Im running Solaris 10 Thanks
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Deployable services on Azure Stacks HCI

What is the list of the resources/services that can be deployed to a hybrid Azure Stacks HCI appliance? Context I am doing an assessment about whether existing on-public-cloud applications can be deployed to on-prem environments. The ultimate goal…
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Cost-Effective Database Architecture for 2000-3000 concurrent users | AWM Cloud

We have conducted the exam of 2000 concurrent users this week. And it went smoothly. Our Architecture was, we used an AWS AutoScaling setup with 5 servers running at the start (each has 2CPU, 8GB RAM). Traffic is equally distributed using AWS Load…
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Using ports on business firewall

I have question regarding network architecture with very close view on FW device port usage on business firewalls like Zyxel ATP800. For example, this FW has 12 customizable ports (WAN,LAN, etc) I often see that only 2 ports are used: 1xWAN + 1xLAN…
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Architecting for microservices application

I am not sure whether this is a right forum to ask question with respect to the infrastructure architecture. But posting the question hoping so: One of my customer has a web application which is developed in the latest technology of micro services.…
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Api gateway for Microservices with Google Cloud Functions

Inputs For example, we have a few services. Account service Product service Payment service Each service is a separate Google Cloud Function. Each service has its own HTTP API. For example, the account service has:…
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How poll lots of external services from aws in a scalable and self-healing way

I have a set of external services which I want to poll continuously in short intervals (about 30seconds) from AWS. For example, I have a set of git repos which I want to poll for changes to trigger ci pipelines. My requirements are: I want the…
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