Re: [tlug] Re: Talk about fast HTTP

[Christian Horn <chorn@example.com>]

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 07:21:49PM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
> 
> Our experience, with a server serving less than half a terrabyte of
> various files, more or less randomly accessed, is that we can't even
> read enough from the disks to saturate one GigE interface.

That usecase could be handled nowadays with an x86-server, just
seen that HP offers those nowadays, carrying up to 512gb of ram
which could be used for caching here.


Christian