From owner-netperf-users@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 24 19:41:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: netperf-users@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BE58106564A; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:41:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnn@freebsd.org) Received: from vps.hungerhost.com (vps.hungerhost.com [216.38.53.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D3FD8FC13; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:41:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hudson-trading.com ([209.249.190.9] helo=gnnmac.hudson-trading.com) by vps.hungerhost.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OzE9O-0000zz-2G; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:41:42 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: George Neville-Neil In-Reply-To: <20100924190133.GA2236@garage.freebsd.pl> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:41:41 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <0BDE67AD-1DBA-44E9-9FA5-06C0BB5774AD@freebsd.org> References: <20100924190133.GA2236@garage.freebsd.pl> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - vps.hungerhost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - freebsd.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: netperf-users@freebsd.org, netperf-admin@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I'd like to make some changes to the Sentex Lab... X-BeenThere: netperf-users@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions related to the netperf cluster. " List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:41:43 -0000 On Sep 24, 2010, at 15:01 , Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:55:53AM -0400, George Neville-Neil wrote: >> Howdy, >>=20 >> We should have four new, 3.4GHz, 2Px2C, machines arriving soon at = Sentex. With that >> it is time to revisit what hardware we have in the rack there, some = of which is now quite >> old. I would like to make the following changes in the machines that = we have racked: >>=20 >> 1) Remove Camel. This is a 4U box. At the moment pjd is using it = and I figure he's >> on here and will chime in if there is a reason to keep it. >=20 > I'd like camel to stay. I don't care of course if it is 4U or 1U. > Actually it would be nice if we could find hardware or find donor for > faster camel. It is time to work on ZFS performance as some not very > good for us benchmarks show up. I'm using camel for few years now and = it > was a huge help for me. OK, for the record. Pawel and I chatted on line about this. What he = actually meant here is that he wanted to continue to have a machine for ZFS work. = I will allocate one of the new bears to him, and we'll move 4 of the 6 = SATA disks in Camel to that bear. Best George