Fwd: Configuring an older server for speed...

[Kurt Buff]

Sorry. This should also have been sent to the list.


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From: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: Configuring an older server for speed...
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>


On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Wojciech Puchar
<wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> what is DS3? how fast it is.
>
> it sounds somehow like "E3" which is 34Mbit/s
>
> i have 4 4Mbit/s DSL's in one place - total 16Mbit/s, and have no dedicated
> hard drives for it, but 3 partitions on 3 SATA hard drives.
>
> it EASILY works taking few% CPU (at most) on core 2 duo and at most 30% of
> each drive.
>
> it could easily make E3 on even 2 dedicated 10K RPM drives, not mentioning
> five.

Nominally, a DS3 is 45mbits/sec - we have a soft cap at 5mbits/sec,
but I've seen lots of bursting to between 10 and 20 so far.