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Hello fellow gentoo-server users! |
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I'm planning an install of an application server, that is, a GUI |
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application server via X11, as in Terminal Server. It will run desktop |
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apps like OpenOffice, gnome, mozilla, gaim, lyx, evolution... I think |
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the main performance bottleneck will be the hard-drives which, I |
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believe, are the slowest devices on any system. |
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What would you recomend for the layout of the different partitions? |
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Are access times different on different parts of the drive? I recall |
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reading that access times are faster at the beginning of the drive, but |
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I also sort of remember that access times are optimum in the middle of |
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the drive, as it's that zone where the heads are most likely to be in |
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any given moment. In your experience: what parts of the filesystem are |
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accessed more often? /usr? /home, perhaps? maybe /tmp? Is there a way to |
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measure this? |
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Would there be performance benefits from placing this parts of the |
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filesystem in a different order in the partition layout? |
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And what filesystems do you recomend for the different partitions in |
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a desktop-app-server scenario? |
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Any comments are welcome! |
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Thanks |
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Rodrigo |