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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!Belgium.EU.net!god.bel.alcatel.be!bln.sel.alcatel.de!news From: blume_h@slbh03.bln.sel.alcatel.de (H. Blume von Contributed) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: ccd/disk striping interleave for news host? Date: 01 Apr 1996 14:24:23 +0200 Organization: Alcatel SEL Lines: 22 Sender: blume_h@slbh03.bln.sel.alcatel.de Message-ID: <k820m8i13c.fsf@slbh03.bln.sel.alcatel.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: slbh03.bln.sel.alcatel.de X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 hello has anybody tried disk striping using the ccd driver for a usenet news spool filesystem? what is the optimum interleave? how many articles can be stored per second? i have watched a news host with the 'systat -vm' command. a 100mhz pentium with 32M, pci adaptec, 1gb system disk plus 4gb news spool, both fast scsi-2, can store approximately 2 articles per second from a gzipped uucp feed. the news spool disk performs about 50 seeks per second reading/writing about 6KB per seek. not very exciting. i'll add three 2GB barracudas soon... tia, hb -- email: src@contrib.net / Heiko.Blume@bln.sel.alcatel.de TCP/IP GmbH, Woertherstr. 16, 10405 Berlin Tel: +49.30/443366-0, Fax: +49.30/443366-15