On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Orvar Korvar < knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Your system drive on a Solaris system generally doesn't see enough I/O > activity to require the kind of IOPS you can get out of most modern SSD's. " > > My system drive sees a lot of activity, to the degree everything is going > slow. I have a SunRay that my girlfriend use, and I have 5-10 torrents going > on, and surf the web - often my system crawls. Very often my girlfriend gets > irritated because everything lags and she frequently asks me if she can do > some task, or if she should wait until I have finished copying my files. > Unbearable. > > I have a quad core Intel 9450 at 2.66GHz, and 8GB RAM. > > I am planning to use a SSD and really hope it will be faster. > > > > > $ iostat -xcnXCTdz 1 > > cpu > us sy wt id > 25 7 0 68 > extended device statistics > r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device > 0,0 0,0 0,0 0,0 0,0 0,0 0,0 0,0 0 0 c8 > 0,0 0,0 0,0 0,0 0,0 0,0 0,0 0,0 0 0 c8t0d0 > 37,0 442,1 4489,6 51326,1 7,5 2,0 15,7 4,1 98 100 c7d0 Desktop usage is a different beast as I alluded to. A dedicated server typically doesn't have any issues. I'd strongly suggest getting one of the sandforce controller based SSD's. They're the best on the market right now by far. --Tim
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