Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 20:32:47 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Brian Behlendorf <brian@collab.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk I/O Message-ID: <4.2.2.20001108200957.01482b68@marble.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011081625011.1844-100000@yez.hyperreal.org>
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At 04:35 PM 11/8/2000 -0800, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
>I'm having agonizingly slow disk I/O. Granted, this is a heavily pounded
>machine (~2M web hits/day with ~50K being CGI or java, 500K mail
Sounds like a lot of disk seeks stacking up. We had the same problem with
a busy pop3 server. As someone else suggested, a nice RAID system (e.g
RAID 0+1) will give you the seek time improvement as well as reliability.
---Mike
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