Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 15:23:32 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, dcarmich@dcarmichael.net Subject: Re: Returning to the FreeBSD community ... Message-ID: <200803091423.m29ENWr4069675@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <B9FD05C0-3A0E-4073-843A-B1955909B981@dcarmichael.net>
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Douglas Carmichael wrote: > Do you think that it could work well in an environment where it would > be serving large audio/video files? (Would you want SAS drives in the > server?) FreeBSD will work very well for that kind of workload. Be sure to read the usual tuning tips, e.g. the tuning(7) manpage. It might also be a good idea to ask on the -net or -performance lists for specific advise. For serving any kind of large files, you want your storage to be as fast as possible. Personally I would use a bunch of very fast disks, formatted with UFS2 using a low inode density (i.e. something like newfs -i 262144). That will also reduce fsck time considerably in the case of a crash. You might even want to play with larger bsize/fsize values (e.g. setting both to 16k so you won't get fragments). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "anyone new to programming should be kept as far from C++ as possible; actually showing the stuff should be considered a criminal offence" -- Jacek Generowiczhome | help
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