[2465] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: Hardware purchases
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhpower@MIT.EDU)
Sun Sep 22 01:42:41 1996
From: mhpower@MIT.EDU
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: star-maintainers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[37463] in Usenet_Meeting"
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 01:39:12 EDT
>This is not an answer to Jonathon's mail; this is all short-term
>stuff, and it's just to let people know what's going on.
>
>Here are the purchases I plan to ask to be made out of the server
>budget for SIPB servers early next week. I mentioned some of these
>in recent mail sent to usenet:
...
> * A 4GB disk for bed, to consolidate some of the 1GB Fujitsu
> disks. Probably 5400rpm.
It's true that this was mentioned in "recent mail sent to usenet";
actually, it looks like the first mention of this on the usenet list
(or any other information source I've seen) was 17 minutes before this
message. That's, um, pretty recent. Also, it's unclear what you mean
by "I plan to ask to be made out of the server budget": who were you
planning to ask about it?
My recollection is that much of the data on 1 Gb disks is on those
disks because we had decided performance would be better if the data
were divided among as many disks as possible. I think that
consolidating to a 4 Gb disk will reduce performance significantly,
and is not even worth trying. As an alternative, I'd suggest replacing
the two 1 Gb overview disks with a single 2 Gb disk, and replacing the
1 Gb spool3 disk with either a newer 1 Gb disk or a 2 Gb disk.
Matt
