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[ic] Should I buy another CPU?
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 08:59, Ryan Hertz wrote:
> At 06:38 AM 3/21/02 -0500, Bill Carr wrote:
> >On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 16:07, Mike Heins wrote:
> > > Quoting Orko (orko@eacceleration.com):
> > > > <SNIP>
> > > >
> > > > Whether new hardware would have aleviated the symptoms or not I would
> > > > rather have this patch in and not have to worry about sometime in the
> > > > future when the server is loaded more. I'm running a PIII 800, 1G RAM
> > > > and SCSI RAID - sure, I could throw some more RAM at it or upgrade the
> > > > processor, but then I would feel like a M$ user... ;-)
> > >
> > > By the way, I see problems like this all the time when I have session
> > > and temp space on RAID. The write speed for hardware RAID often is bad,
> > > no matter the claims of the manufacturer.
> > >
> > > Using software RAID for temp and session space is slow suicide.
> >My session and temp space is on a NFS mounted RAID5. Mylex DAC1164P PCI
> >RAID Controller. 3 Seagate Cheetah 18XL, 10000rpm, ST318404LC drives.
> >Should I buy another disk to put on the SCSI or IDE bus for session and
> >temp space? If yes, what are the hardware recommendations?
> I'm not very hardware-savvy (no actually, I'm not very smart at all) but
> correct me if I'm wrong: you're saying that your temp/session drives are a
> shared array? So regardless of how fast the drives are, you're only as
> fast as your LAN? What type of NICs are you using? 10 base? 100
> base? Does your IC box have only 1 NIC?
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Bill Carr
Worldwide Impact
bill@worldwideimpact.com
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