View Single Post
Old 20th March 2013
zizzo zizzo is offline
New User
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Great NW, USA
Posts: 2
Default

So I listed my hardware setups running OpenBSD in this thread back in 2010 when I was starting out. Since then, I have moved away from the older single-core Athlon XP CPUs (except my trusty XP 2900) and replaced my dev setup with Core2Quad Q8200 & Core2Duo E8400 machines.

With these I am running pf along with DHCP & BIND and wireless on a separate subnet. I have added Squid & SquidGuard to the mix and I am currently evaluating NoSQL dBs to add.


So here is the current list - all running OpenBSD 5.2 / i386:

Physical boxes:
Core2Quad Q8200 w/4GB + 128GB SSD - this is my ports build box

Core2Duo E8400 w/4GB + 40GB SSD + Syba Dual-GigabitE NIC + wireless - firewall

Celeron 847 (Sandy Bridge 1.1GHz) m-ITX w/Dual-GigabitE NIC + wireless + 6GB SATA SSD - firewall appliance dev

This thing is really fast when it comes to disk I/O. The other Core2 boxes have 3GB SATA and only 1 has AHCI. When I do a squidGuard dB rebuild - systat reports about 30M/s on mechanical HDD (takes 20+ min) and 60MB/s on SSD (takes 8-10min). The E8400 will do 115MB/s sustaned during the rebuild (takes about 2min). When I get to the Cel 847 mentioned above with 6GB SATA and AHCI - I get 180MB/s sustained during the dB rebuild (takes 1m 10sec). Quite impressive indeed.

Last edited by zizzo; 21st March 2013 at 12:14 PM.
Reply With Quote