Mark Hahn wrote: > extra ram doesn't help a fileserver much except when you can read-cache > effectively (either file contents or metadata.) I wouldn't sweat cache > size, and probably not ram size either (unless your working set really > is < 8GB.) > _______________________________________________
One thing extra RAM can buy a file server is aggregating writes into contiguous blocks. I'm not sure what the sweet spot as far as RAM size is, and I suspect strongly that the effect is dependent on the number and size of your files, so your YMMV. -- -- Skylar Thompson (sky...@cs.earlham.edu) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/
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