----- Original Message ----- From: "MonMotha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 4:40 PM Subject: Re: [luau] INFO: Heavy duty storage needs
> I'm glad someone liked my explanation :) > > > I recently built a nice dualie AMD 1.4GHz, 2GB DDR, with 2xU160 36GB > 15kRPM hard drives. It's (among other things) a proxy server and > mailer. Proxying, especially when also doing mail, involves some > bandwidth (but not excessive, it's only a 1gbit uplink to the LAN), but > it also involves a lot of seeking. The tagged command queuing and > reduced seek times of the SCSI drives are a big advantage on this puppy. > Have you considered vserver for that machine? It would greatly enhance security and flexibility... and I look forward to seeing what kind of neat iptables tricks you can do with multiple vservers (and perhaps multiple IP aliases). http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc
