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Date:      Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:41:41 -0400
From:      George Neville-Neil <gnn@freebsd.org>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        netperf-users@freebsd.org, netperf-admin@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: I'd like to make some changes to the Sentex Lab...
Message-ID:  <0BDE67AD-1DBA-44E9-9FA5-06C0BB5774AD@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100924190133.GA2236@garage.freebsd.pl>
References:  <E9E1581C-D1BF-4C93-9521-2E67084FEC1E@freebsd.org> <20100924190133.GA2236@garage.freebsd.pl>

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On Sep 24, 2010, at 15:01 , Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:55:53AM -0400, George Neville-Neil wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>=20
>> We should have four new, 3.4GHz, 2Px2C, machines arriving soon at =
Sentex.   With that
>> it is time to revisit what hardware we have in the rack there, some =
of which is now quite
>> old.  I would like to make the following changes in the machines that =
we have racked:
>>=20
>> 1) Remove Camel.  This is a 4U box.  At the moment pjd is using it =
and I figure he's
>> on here and will chime in if there is a reason to keep it.
>=20
> I'd like camel to stay. I don't care of course if it is 4U or 1U.
> Actually it would be nice if we could find hardware or find donor for
> faster camel. It is time to work on ZFS performance as some not very
> good for us benchmarks show up. I'm using camel for few years now and =
it
> was a huge help for me.

OK, for the record.  Pawel and I chatted on line about this.  What he =
actually
meant here is that he wanted to continue to have a machine for ZFS work. =
I
will allocate one of the new bears to him, and we'll move 4 of the 6 =
SATA
disks in Camel to that bear.

Best
George




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