[K12OSN] Performance Issue
Les Mikesell
les at futuresource.com
Thu Mar 23 13:29:31 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 23:31, Liam Marshall wrote:
> I planned to do this because from my reading of this list, and others,
> I had gathered/assumed that this would have a significant positive
> impact on speed/throughput. But today I talked to someone who told me
> that this wonât help all that much because my biggest
> problem/bottleneck is not the lack of a Gigabyte backbone, but is the
> hard drive accessbottleneck on the server
Keep in mind that you only read the disk once for any number
of clients that want something within a reasonable length
of time because of disk caching. Your server should have
at least 4 gigs of ram and the gig uplink will make a
substantial difference.
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Les Mikesell
les at futuresource.com
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