[K12OSN] Performance Issue

[Les Mikesell]

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 won’t 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