IO Scheduling

2008-04-11 Thread Ivan Voras
I found an interesting post: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.postgresql.performance/15979 By itself the post doesn't say anything specific, except that apparently great improvements can be gained on some loads with different IO scheduling policies on Linux. It's maybe something to take into

10GbE speeds

2008-04-11 Thread Aristedes Maniatis
I have a project with 3 workstations all needing high speed access to about 6Tb of storage. In the past I've installed technology such as fibre channel connected SAN storage (using Apple's xsan) for up to a dozen workstations, but with only three workstations for this project I'm thinking a

Re: 10GbE speeds

2008-04-11 Thread Kip Macy
> Any thoughts about the viability of this? Is 10GbE in production use with > FreeBSD and does it scale well? It seems reasonable to me. Vendors are shipping products with some flavor of freebsd with cxgb and mxge and products are planned for ixgbe. -Kip > > > Cheers > Ari Maniatis > > > > >

RE: 10GbE speeds

2008-04-11 Thread Muhammad Shafiq
Neterion is shipping 10G (XFRAME series) adapters, along with FreeBSD driver ("nxge"), for quite some time. Please refer to http://www.neterion.com/support/xframe_customers.html for latest FreeBSD driver(s) and other support info. Shafiq -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mai