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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!eru.mt.luth.se!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.enteract.com!ix.netcom.com!news.webspan.net!usenet From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@webspan.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ccd help Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 02:27:55 -0500 Organization: WebSpan Inc Lines: 15 Message-ID: <328826FB.FF6D5DF@webspan.net> References: <3270DC0C.15E4@loopback.com> <3275721D.628D@onthenet.com.au> <5582ut$meh@news.pcslink.com> <55i5nk$jca@uriah.heep.sax.de> <567dki$n3e@cantina.clinet.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: mutara.noc.webspan.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-STABLE i386) Mika Ruohotie wrote: > he said that the news feed of about 7 articles a second is about too > much for freebsd's filesystem, a log filesystem would be required... I've seen >>7 articles a second on a FreeBSD -current machine with a 20Gb CCD stripe. The only limitations I'm aware of are disk accessing limitations (1Gb drives are better in this situation than 4Gb :-) ) The majority of the disk accessing that I see going on is writing article files. FreeBSD's disk cache is pretty good. Mind you, I see more and more SGI machines being used for news, so maybe XFS does have an advantage. Perhaps if SGI publish the specs so we know what it does, we'll be able to tell :) Gary