From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 4 00:33:35 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA09101 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 00:33:35 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA09095 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 00:33:29 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA26921; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 19:05:59 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199512041905.TAA26921@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Inodes for news server To: craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 19:05:58 +0000 () Cc: peterb@telerama.lm.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199512031823.NAA01648@solar.os.com> from "Craig Shrimpton" at Dec 3, 95 01:23:25 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1234 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Craig Shrimpton stands accused of saying: > >The history database sitting on it's own disk is a major win, > >because it gets accessed once for each article that arrives, and every > >time expire runs. It doesn't need two gigs though -- a 500 meg disk is > >more than adequate to hold two copies of a pretty big history file (and > >nothing else!) > > > > Hmmm.. this sounds interesting, how about this: > > 1 850 MG IDE containing FreeBSD/OS, swap and news programs. Don't even _think_ about swapping to an IDE disk, especially on a news server. In fact, don't even _think_ about using IDE for any application where performance is important. > Also, give each SCSI drive its own controller. Put the news disks on one controller, and the swap and history disks on another. > Craig Shrimpton Email: craigs@os.com -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[