Argus 2.0 features

[Peter Van Epp]

> 
> Wow, thanks Peter!  I did not expect to get such a clear cut answer.  
> I'll save my money (or buy a bigger disk ;-)

	Yes, the 40 gig UDMA 66 IDE I bought for a bit more than $500 a few
months ago is now down to around $350, its almost full of argus logs. Time
to buy another one.
	As well the original machine (admittably a Supermicro server class
machine) was > $6K, the replacement rackmount Intel was under $2K for a faster
machine (but a couple of years later).

> 
> > 
> > > Is there anyway I can trade memory for disk reading performance on 
> > > these OSes.
> > 
> > 	Run a filesystem in memory/swap (I do that with /tmp) but it is 
> > volitile on a boot. 
> > 
> 
> I was aware of that possibility, I was thinking along the lines of 
> clever read  ahead caches or smart disk controllers -- I have seen some 
> theoretical work on things like this ages ago and was wondering if 
> there was anything available for your common or garden OSes.

	There is FreeBSD support for various of the raid controller, I don't
know what the would do for performace (in theory good things if the access
pattern is correct) but I haven't used any of them.

Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada