Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:59:08 +0200 From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> To: Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD or Intel? Message-ID: <BC92A0AE3C48A03E21FCADED@rambutan.pingpong.net> In-Reply-To: <cone.1189809875.735617.94210.5001@35st.simplicato.com> References: <E6C9DBADAE3839B380B736D7@rambutan.pingpong.net> <cone.1189710437.247473.77599.5001@35st.simplicato.com> <1F219879A7E5C565C96109FF@c-2f56e155.1521-1-64736c12.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se> <cone.1189727090.40770.77599.5001@35st.simplicato.com> <26F41A5DACB2D2CB43A5829E@c-6254e155.1521-1-64736c12.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se> <cone.1189809875.735617.94210.5001@35st.simplicato.com>
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--On fredag, september 14, 2007 18.44.35 -0400 Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> wrote: > Palle Girgensohn writes: > >> Sorry, my mistake, more like a percent per day at the moment... > > If you have 16GB and you got 1% per day.. in less than 100 days you would > be at 32GB.. If growth continues you will theoretically be at 60GB+ > within a year. > > We are planning about 16 GB RAM, actually. Maybe it is overkill? > > If you can afford it the more the merrier.. given that you likely will > have this machine for a good couple of years.. as your data grow what was > once "overkill" will become "a good amount" of memory. So I would say do > get the 16GB if the budget allows it. True... > > We will probably go for SCSI. HP DL380 with "HP SmartArray", aka ciss. > > How will you monitor disk failures? Does that controller can be monitored > with FreeBSD in some way? I believe it can, not sure how well, though. Status control can be done with this util: /usr/ports/sysutils/cciss_vol_status <http://cciss.sourceforge.net/>; Thanks Palle
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