From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jun 17 10:32: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from picard.skynet.be (picard.skynet.be [195.238.3.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E9437B405 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 10:32:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [194.78.241.123] ([194.78.241.123]) by picard.skynet.be (8.11.2/8.11.2/Skynet-OUT-2.11) with ESMTP id f5HHVkb07191; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 19:31:46 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3B2CDD98.95548872@pitt.edu> References: <3B2CDD98.95548872@pitt.edu> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 19:29:31 +0200 To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Article Network performance by OS Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:40 PM -0400 6/17/01, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > This procedure would provide an excellent test of reliability. I > think, however, that it's easier to find and maintain an UPS instead > of hiring a FreeBSD expert. OK...tunning is not rocket science, but if > your want reliable operation you really need an UPS anyways, and > FreeBSD admins are not easily found (wrt to lusers and wusers). A UPS doesn't do you a damn bit of good if the power supply or the fan on the CPU dies. Or if some moron kicks the power cable out. Or if the OS is more unstable because it's not properly configured and the system is being pushed too hard. A more reliable filesystem does actually help in all of these cases, and a more properly tuned system would be more likely to help in all of these cases. -- Brad Knowles, /* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum */ /* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */ /* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */ /* */ /* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */ /* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */ dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message