From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Nov 16 21:24:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from xena.cs.waikato.ac.nz (xena.cs.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.241.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6452015212 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 21:24:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joerg@lucy.cs.waikato.ac.nz) Received: from lucy.cs.waikato.ac.nz (joerg@lucy.cs.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.241.12]) by xena.cs.waikato.ac.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA21586; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 18:24:18 +1300 (NZDT) Received: (from joerg@localhost) by lucy.cs.waikato.ac.nz (8.9.3/8.9.0) id SAA28580; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 18:24:16 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 18:24:16 +1300 From: Joerg Micheel To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Seeking recommendations/stories for big servers Message-ID: <19991117182416.N20903@cs.waikato.ac.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: SCMS, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Project: WAND - Waikato Applied Network Dynamics, DAG Operating-System: ... drained by Solaris 7 SPARC Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org We are planning to configure a big multiprocessor system (4/8 Xeon), with 0.5-2.0GB of memory and a huge SCSI subsystem (1/2 to 3/4 of a terabyte). The system will be used to store and process large Internet trace files, quite likely in gzip'ed form. There will be massive sequential access, many files will be readonly. I'd be interested to hear some experience/stories from people running such systems. I need to make a choice among the big PC manufacturers (Dell, Compaq, you name it). I'm interested in running vinum rather than a commercial RAID product (if any form of RAID is required at all). I'm also interested about network-fanout stories. We may NFS-mount the server and have a 100MBit Ethernet box behind it for access from a farm of PCs. Thanks for your time! Joerg Micheel -- Joerg B. Micheel Email: Waikato Applied Network Dynamics Phone: +64 7 8384794 The University of Waikato, SCMS Fax: +64 7 8384155 Private Bag 3105 Pager: +64 868 38222 Hamilton, New Zealand Plan: TINE and the DAG's To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message