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<H2><A NAME="s24">24. Appendix D: Example: Multipurpose Server</A></H2>
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The following table is from the setup of a medium sized multipurpose
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server where I once worked. Aside from being a general Linux machine it will
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also be a network related server (DNS, mail, FTP, news, printers etc.)
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X server for various CAD programs, CD ROM burner and many other things.
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The files reside on 3 SCSI drives with a capacity of 600, 1000 and 1300
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<P>Some further speed could possibly be gained by splitting <CODE>/usr/local</CODE>
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from the rest of the <CODE>/usr</CODE> system but we deemed the further added
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complexity would not be worth it. With another couple of drives
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this could be more worthwhile. In this setup drive sda is old and slow
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and could just a well be replaced by an IDE drive. The other two drives
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are both rather fast. Basically we split most of the load between these
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two. To reduce dangers of imbalance in partition sizing we have decided
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to keep <CODE>/usr/bin</CODE> and <CODE>/usr/local/bin</CODE> in one drive
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and <CODE>/usr/lib</CODE> and <CODE>/usr/local/lib</CODE> on another separate drive
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which also affords us some drive parallelizing.
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<P>Even more could be gained by using RAID but we felt that as a server we
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needed more reliability than was then afforded by the <CODE>md</CODE> patch and
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a dedicated RAID controller was out of our reach.
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