From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 15 03:45:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8215C16A403 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 03:45:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tec@mega.net.br) Received: from msrv.matik.com.br (msrv.matik.com.br [200.152.83.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFD2843D45 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 03:45:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tec@mega.net.br) Received: from ap-h.matik.com.br (ap-h.matik.com.br [200.152.83.36]) by msrv.matik.com.br (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k9F3j9dR048465 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 00:45:09 -0300 (BRT) (envelope-from tec@mega.net.br) From: NOC Meganet Organization: Prowip Telecom Ltda To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 00:45:42 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <20061014130331.68863.qmail@web33312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200610141313.28868.tec@mega.net.br> <20061014180518.GA75972@Geeks.ORG> In-Reply-To: <20061014180518.GA75972@Geeks.ORG> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610150045.42927.tec@mega.net.br> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on msrv.matik.com.br X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x 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: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 03:45:11 -0000 On Saturday 14 October 2006 15:05, Mike Horwath wrote: > > I would say this preference is mostly set by beeing afraid of > > migration (lots of things can come up when migrating a production > > server) or by lack of money to buy some nasty HW ... > > Ah, hardware bigotry. =A0Your colors are showing. > come on, it is what it is and performance in first place comes from the=20 hardware, it doesn't matter how hard you blow the elephant's ass without=20 wings the beast do not fly > > > SATA (of any gen) still does not perform like SCSI. =A0Let's just look > > > at spindle speed alone ignoring the other benefits of SCSI. > > > > I had no time to test it on a life webserver and probably can't do > > it so soon but I tell you that a 10K Raptor is faster then a 15K > > 320Mb SCSI when compiling world or untarring large files. Also NCQ > > is not reserved to SCSI anymore so when you see the price then it is > > becoming a valid option for small servers. > > And your testing methodogy was...what? counting Universal Time Units from beginning of the process until the end o= f=20 the process Hans =2D- Prowip Telecom Ltda AS 22706 A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br