david(at)lang(dot)hm writes:
> what filesystem is being used. There is a thread on the linux-kernel
> mailing list right now showing that ext4 seems to top out at ~360MB/sec
> while XFS is able to go to 500MB/sec+
EXT3 on Centos 5.4
Plan to try and see if I have time with the new machines to try FreeBSD+ZFS.
ZFS supposedly makes good use of memory and the new machines will have 72GB
of RAM.