designing new freebsd server for amd64 arch

[Vivek Khera]

On Apr 19, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Tom Shafron wrote:

>> at the same time to cause instability.  once I
>> replaced it with an
>> intel NIC it has been 100% stable (going on 2 weeks
>> now and ever
>> increasing load)
>>
>
> What do you consider very heavy load in Mb/s for both
> network and disk IO traffic?  I'd like to bring it up
> to that level and test how it handles it...
>
>

not so much sure on the exact numbers, but the database is postgres and 
it was running some large reports that scanned across many 
multi-gigabyte tables, at the same time running a pg_dump (backup) 
across the ethernet to another box on the LAN, and at the same time 
keeping itself up-to-date using the slony replication engine for 
postgres.

the reports were being run on a remote machine.  the only processes 
running on this box other than the base system stuff (ssh, etc.) is 
postgres.