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WCArchive sets new Record
dcs
writes "The hardware upgrade for wcarchive came
not a single second too soon. In it's first full day of
operation with the new hardware, a new record was set...
969 gigabytes of traffic was generated, thanks
mainly to the recent release of RedHat 6.0. I'm
looking forward to the first terabyte in day mark, but it
seems an upgrade on network capacity is due before that
can happen. "
I love Linux as much or more than the next guy, and NetBSD sounds pretty cool, but how the heck does this record prove anything conclusively about NetBSD and Linux?
You misunderstand my point. I recently suggested at work that we use one of the various free Unices for a couple of servers. My suggestion was shot down, with the comment that none of the free Unices had ever been proven in a high stress, high load situation.
This is, in my oppinion, quite clearly an example where one of them has.
I love the free Unices. FreeBSD is stable as a rock on Intel hardware (though, unfortunately, not portable for crap yet). NetBSD has the stability of FreeBSD, along with the ability to run on damn near every single architecture available (even more than Linux). Linux just plain rocks, with it's stability, features, and amazingly fast evolution.
I also believe in using the right tool for the right task, and I often don't bother to differentiate between which one is better, or anything else. They're all Free Unices to me, each with their own strength and weeknesses.
This says a lot about FreeBSD, and the potential for Free Software in general. Don't make more out of it than there is to be made, though.
This is exactly my point. This is an example that shows very clearly that the Free Unices, and Free Software in general, *can* work, and *does* work. I'm not here to argue the specifics of each OS, or anything like that.
I look at this from the point of view that, when I show my boss evidence like this, all of the Free Unices win, and all of them become better recognised for their abilities by him.
It makes Free Software/Open Source advocates look intellectually dishonest.
I disagree. I see it as using a single example to prove a concept, as opposed to 'My OS is better than your OS.'
Topher
David Greenman, the Co-founder/Principal Architect of the FreeBSD Project just posted a new picture of the new wcarchive, it is now available here.
Updated hardware description is also available here.
It would be amazing if someone could pull some nice effects with The Gimp and make a cool looking "ftp.cdrom.com theme" for Windowmaker or something...
- Alfred Perlstein - Programmer and Administrator, Wintelcom.
Actually, their whole architecture seems strange. This seems like something much better handled by multiple machines with connections to different ISPs. Oh, but they're colocated in their ISP's machine room....
I'd love to see this kind of information (bandwidth, machine, OS) and more (time-of-day loading curve, ...) for all the big data providers, whoever they are... (download.com? yahoo? aol? conxion? ...) They don't seem to brag about it much. If they have little info pages like cdrom.com's, I haven't been able to find them.
I don't know why, but this kind of stuff just grabs me. Lifestyles of the bandwidth-rich and cache-famous? Packed-Tranfer Pr0n?
You can use this site:
http://www.netcraft.com/cgi-bin/Survey/whats
to find out what server and OS are being used by a given domain name. Try egg.microsoft.com !
This works by recognising the characteristic signatures of the different OS's TCP/IP stacks as they respond to a bunch of wierd packets.