Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 07:14:13 +0200 From: "L. Jankok" <lj@2u2.nu> To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi> Cc: Alain Fauconnet <alain@ait.ac.th> Subject: Re: tweaking FreeBSD for Squid using Message-ID: <20030416051413.GB653@atlantis.local.net> In-Reply-To: <06a501c303d4$05c78de0$932a40c1@PHE> References: <20030416024844.GC7867@ait.ac.th> <06a501c303d4$05c78de0$932a40c1@PHE>
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The last time I checked IDE drives were still sequential in their access.. so by design a bottleneck for high performance databases or squid.. and a burden for your cpu Lucio Jankok On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 07:52:34AM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote: :> :> I don't know. Seems that IDE disks evolve too fast for me nowadays. :> That's also why I was writing that I'm not even sure that the old :> stance "don't use IDE for servers" is still valid. :> OOTH, I've had a lot of trouble with busy IDE-based (ASUS P4* m/b) :> FreeBSD servers lately (hard hangs, see bug kern/44867). :> :Western digital Raptorīs spin at 10000rpm though they only come with 37 gig :at the moment. So good for database applications but not for large scale storage. : :Pete : :_______________________________________________ :freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list :http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance :To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-performance-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. --Bertrand Russell
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