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To: Ben Black <black@gage.com>, "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
From: Michael Beckmann <petzi@zit.th-darmstadt.de>
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At 14:42 Uhr -0500 19.10.1996, Ben Black wrote

<excerpt><smaller>

yes, assuming you aren't recalculating parity every time to read or
write data, it is seek bound.  to eliminate the massive seek
bottleneck, get rid of the filesystem.  that's what we did.  as i've
said before, 6 million articles per day on a P5-120 with 64MB RAM. 
then we ran out of articles.  load average under 2.0.  i know about new
server performance.  any questions?

</smaller></excerpt><smaller>

</smaller>Oh yes, I have a question. Would you mind sharing your
knowledge about how to get rid of the filesystem in a newsserver ? If
you have a working solution, I would like to hear about it.


Cheers,


Michael