From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 7 07:56:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA08623 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 07:56:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA08615 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 07:56:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA10913 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 10:59:03 -0500 Received: from buffnet3.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa21011; 7 Feb 96 11:01 EST Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 11:01:16 -0500 (EST) From: steve hovey To: Jeffrey Wheat cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2940 and news/web In-Reply-To: <199602071439.JAA04906@tad.cetlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 7 Feb 1996, Jeffrey Wheat wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm running a Pentium 100, 64Megs of RAM, with an Adaptec 2940U > and Micropolis 1991 9gig SCSI-2 drive. My question is, is there any way to > improve the disk I/O performance of the server (running 2.1-Release)? It > seems that the disk is buried in I/O and drastically affects the performance > of my server. Any information is greatly appreciated. Your problem is that 9 gig drive. You would be better off with 7- 2 gig drives with news groups spread across them based on post volume and size. This way i/o is spread out. With scsi, a device can go off the bus for a bit as it dishes around, leaving the controller able to ask another device for something in the mean time. ------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Hovey -- shovey@buffnet.net root@buffnet.net