Glyphglyph@mastodon.social
Oct 15, 2026, 1:11 AM@wronglang @JessTheUnstill @viq @mcc I am unqualified to judge this statement! I am assuming this is some kind of swipe at whatever a "vCPU" is, but could you say more?
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Oct 15, 2026, 3:37 AM@glyph
I assume notorious overcommitment of VMs versus what resources the host has.
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Krzysztof Sakrejda 🏳️⚧️ 🏴☠wronglang@bayes.clubOct 15, 2026, 11:02 AM@glyph @JessTheUnstill @viq @mcc actually most of my experience is with SLURM clusters where if you're getting crap performance because the other part of a machine is being tortured somehow (or just failing) you have visibility into that, so the whole "vCPU" things is aesthetically offensive. Vendors patronize people by listing cost per vCPU when you have to benchmark what that means across vendors anyway (and benchmark results aren't fixed). Huge waste of time.