Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:47:12 -0400 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: designing new freebsd server for amd64 arch Message-ID: <dddee3bf4be784f42a4267d1dc926357@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <20050419201708.59549.qmail@web60007.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050419201708.59549.qmail@web60007.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Apr 19, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Tom Shafron wrote: >> at the same time to cause instability. once I >> replaced it with an >> intel NIC it has been 100% stable (going on 2 weeks >> now and ever >> increasing load) >> > > What do you consider very heavy load in Mb/s for both > network and disk IO traffic? I'd like to bring it up > to that level and test how it handles it... > > not so much sure on the exact numbers, but the database is postgres and it was running some large reports that scanned across many multi-gigabyte tables, at the same time running a pg_dump (backup) across the ethernet to another box on the LAN, and at the same time keeping itself up-to-date using the slony replication engine for postgres. the reports were being run on a remote machine. the only processes running on this box other than the base system stuff (ssh, etc.) is postgres.
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