Hello Charles,
Thank you for responding. I'm currently on a single 933/1G PC133/U160 7200RPM 9.1G disk. I'm on my own server in my own rack. This machine handles the board itself, I have others for DNS/Postfix.
I know that one day it will come where I need to move up to threads as well as upgrade the server. Probably the latter before the fomer.
I've been beating on a local machine here which is an 800/768M PC133/ATA100 5400RPM 20G disk. I've been putting more and less ram in as well as using the slower disk to try to see if I am getting disk waits on the processes, resource starvation due to lack of optimization, etc. Whereas I'm not a fan of IDE for producton use, if I need more CPU and less disk I'd rather have it that way.
I'm going to try to load the board entirely into a ramdisk into memory, it should prove interesting to say the least. This should define what factor the disk plays in it.
Do you have a tool that you use in-house to simulate board traffic?
Thanks!
