From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Aug 26 09:46:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA23986 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 09:46:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (root@sasami.jurai.net [206.151.208.162]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA23981 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 09:46:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA18476; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 11:44:48 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 11:44:47 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Joe Greco cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone using ccd (FreeBSD disk striper) for news In-Reply-To: <199608261622.LAA00478@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > > Um... Isn't the DPT stuff "real raid"? > > Guess you can play with words, but in my opinion, not if it's just a > controller... a real RAID includes little things like hot swappability, > redundant power, things that require hardware. ;-) Well, the controller doesn't have that, but the SmartRAID cabinet is the geek-box you're looking for. Its a real solution. > I thought when I looked at the DPT stuff it was just a controller like the > Adaptec 3985 "RAID" controller, but had some cache RAM on it too. To an extent, but you can plug them into the DPT box... Here... http://www.dpt.com/raidsys.html It does power management, automatic faulting on errors, individual drive temprature monitoring and will make breakfast on Wednesdays I'm told. > That's great from the computer's point of view, of course... :-) but I am > still hesitant to call something that is not a complete solution a "RAID". > I will grant it "RAID controller" though. Indeed. > Freenix as of July doesn't even LIST you :-) (looking for: "intersurf", > maybe I should be looking for something else) Yep. We suck. I'm not claiming otherwise. > Considering that the box was deployed at the beginning of summer and I > have not really even started pushing a lot of newsfeeds off of it, the fact > that it splashed into the Top 250 it's first month online and the Top 100 > it's second month online was pretty impressive I thought. You'll be in top25 at least by next month. :) > Hmmmmmmmm no wonder, look at my daily transmission totals... > > TOTALS 1341 1205487 840575 164662 74995 69% 866:44:58 > > Almost 70% acceptance from remote sites is nice to see.. > > We can take this offline.. Yes, you're kicking ass. No doubt about that. Its my fondest hope to see 2 or 3 FreeBSD based boxes in top10. I'm gonna do everything I can on my end to try to get ours there. > Actually I think I am still running mmap on news.sol.net... Ah, I won't bother then. *shrug* > > Yep, our newsserver was sucking really bad until recently. We were down a > > disk and using a really old 2.0.5 SNAP release. > > Ouch. :-) Yes, we lost one of our 3 spool disks. (Gag, I know, thats gonna change too) We're running on a P90 with 64meg of ram and 3 4.3 gig Quantum Grand Prix drives on 2 Buslogic 946s controllers. History file is on the OS disk which is a 2.1 gig Quantum Grand Prix. We're using CCD to stripe the 3 spool disks. Zakk (the newsadmin) is currently adding feeds and hopefull we'll start showing up in Freenix. *cross fingers* He's also going to be building a new news box. *evil grin* Have a good one. | Matthew N. Dodd | winter@jurai.net | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | | Technical Manager | mdodd@intersurf.net | http://www.intersurf.net | | InterSurf Online | "Welcome to the net Sir, would you like a handbasket?"|