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Date:      Wed, 16 Apr 2003 07:14:13 +0200
From:      "L. Jankok" <lj@2u2.nu>
To:        Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc:        Alain Fauconnet <alain@ait.ac.th>
Subject:   Re: tweaking FreeBSD for Squid using
Message-ID:  <20030416051413.GB653@atlantis.local.net>
In-Reply-To: <06a501c303d4$05c78de0$932a40c1@PHE>
References:  <20030416024844.GC7867@ait.ac.th> <06a501c303d4$05c78de0$932a40c1@PHE>

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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
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