Watching performance on a DHCP Server

[Frank Bulk]

How much of a performance advantage would be gained with fsync just by using
a SCSI or serial ATA flash disk, or a USB thumb drive?

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org] On Behalf
Of Enrique Perez-Terron
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:13 AM
To: dhcp-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: Watching performance on a DHCP Server

On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 17:44 -0600, Blake Hudson wrote:
> -------- Original Message  --------
> Subject: Re: Watching performance on a DHCP Server
> From: David W. Hankins <David_Hankins at isc.org>
> To: dhcp-users at isc.org
> Date: Friday, February 08, 2008 4:53:15 PM
> > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 03:27:23PM -0600, Blake Hudson wrote:
> >
> > > Seems like it would make sense that this I/O could be non-blocking....
> > >
> >
> > That's just it, we feel it can't be, or else you run the risk of
> > duplicate allocations on a restart.  The simple way of saying it is
> > the database isn't consistent.

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