From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:27:40 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100113135404.15146118040@smtp.hushmail.com> References: <20100113135404.15146118040@smtp.hushmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Ken Fileserver problem Topicbox-Message-UUID: be900da2-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I found a unused harddrive and an old pc. Is only a P3 but it > should work for testing purposes. To make testing easier I will > try Xen hvm with the file server too. until nov 2008 i ran a piii/600 fileserver with 18g scsi disks. performance was good, but was limited by some poor choices when setting up the filesstems, a poor nic, a small memory cache and by the extra scsi-to-ide copy from the worm to the cache. still, a kernel compile was ~15-20s. have not tried testing the fileserver on xen or any other virtualizer. i used a soekris box for testing last time. - erk