From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 15 22:14:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 314E637B404 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 22:14:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.2u2.nu (ns1.2u2.nu [62.59.31.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A760843FA3 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 22:14:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lucio.jankok@2u2.nu) Received: from mail.2u2.nu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95ED3646 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 07:11:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (atlantis.local.net [10.23.31.10]) by mail.2u2.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D209638 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 07:11:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 692 invoked by uid 109); 16 Apr 2003 05:14:13 -0000 Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 07:14:13 +0200 From: "L. Jankok" To: Petri Helenius Message-ID: <20030416051413.GB653@atlantis.local.net> References: <20030416024844.GC7867@ait.ac.th> <06a501c303d4$05c78de0$932a40c1@PHE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <06a501c303d4$05c78de0$932a40c1@PHE> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: SunOS atlantis 5.9 sparc X-Sender: lj@2u2.nu X-message-flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. cc: Jason Stone cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org cc: Alain Fauconnet Subject: Re: tweaking FreeBSD for Squid using X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: lj@2u2.nu List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 05:14:18 -0000 The last time I checked IDE drives were still sequential in their access.. so by design a bottleneck for high performance databases or squid.. and a burden for your cpu Lucio Jankok On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 07:52:34AM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote: :> :> I don't know. Seems that IDE disks evolve too fast for me nowadays. :> That's also why I was writing that I'm not even sure that the old :> stance "don't use IDE for servers" is still valid. :> OOTH, I've had a lot of trouble with busy IDE-based (ASUS P4* m/b) :> FreeBSD servers lately (hard hangs, see bug kern/44867). :> :Western digital Raptorīs spin at 10000rpm though they only come with 37 gig :at the moment. So good for database applications but not for large scale storage. : :Pete : :_______________________________________________ :freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list :http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance :To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-performance-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. --Bertrand Russell