From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 17 12:59:12 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E47716A41A for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:59:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from girgen@pingpong.net) Received: from melon.pingpong.net (melon.pingpong.net [195.178.174.161]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52DC713C459 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:59:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from girgen@pingpong.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.pingpong.net [127.0.0.1]) by melon.pingpong.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 733175084E; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:59:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from melon.pingpong.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (melon.pingpong.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 68228-02-7; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:59:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.187] (unknown [213.136.40.204]) by melon.pingpong.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF91D5084D; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:59:09 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:59:08 +0200 From: Palle Girgensohn To: Francisco Reyes Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: <1F219879A7E5C565C96109FF@c-2f56e155.1521-1-64736c12.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se> <26F41A5DACB2D2CB43A5829E@c-6254e155.1521-1-64736c12.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at pingpong.net Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD or Intel? X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:59:12 -0000 --On fredag, september 14, 2007 18.44.35 -0400 Francisco Reyes 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 Thanks Palle