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From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@webspan.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ccd help
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 02:27:55 -0500
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Mika Ruohotie wrote:
> he said that the news feed of about 7 articles a second is about too
> much for freebsd's filesystem, a log filesystem would be required...

I've seen >>7 articles a second on a FreeBSD -current machine with a
20Gb CCD stripe. The only limitations I'm aware of are disk accessing
limitations (1Gb drives are better in this situation than 4Gb :-) )
The majority of the disk accessing that I see going on is writing
article files. FreeBSD's disk cache is pretty good.

Mind you, I see more and more SGI machines being used for news, so
maybe XFS does have an advantage. Perhaps if SGI publish the specs
so we know what it does, we'll be able to tell :)

Gary