On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 10:29:03AM -0500, Austad, Jay wrote:
> With all of the emails I recieved, I get the impression that I'm going to
> I/O bound instead of processor or memory bound.
Ahhh... someone who gets it.
> How much disk will be sufficient for the queue? 1GB? More?
What if you did your entire queue injection with your network
connection down? I'd budget for a significant portion of that
plus growth and safety.
> I'm just grasping here to figure out the best solution, so bear with me...
> What if I only needed a 1GB queue, and what if that queue was a 1GB ramdisk
> (I can put 2GB of ram in the box)? Linux has support for making a disk in
> memory, putting a filesystem on it and mounting it. Wouldn't this take care
> of I/O problems?
I'd read up on ramdisks first. They aren't instant i/o.
Alternatively, Quantum has a line of solid state disks which might do
the trick for you. Pretty pricey, though.
http://www.zdnet.com/etestinglabs/stories/main/0,8829,2352381,00.html
John
