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Operating Systems Linux Slackware Which Unix for Fileserving with NTFS partitions as one sole purpose use? Post 55699 by norsk hedensk on Thursday 16th of September 2004 07:07:59 PM

09-16-2004

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Originally posted by zazzybob
I must agree with Norsk above.... I am a long time SUSE user. I've used other distros (Red Hat, Slackware, Debian, Fedora, Xandros) and some of the BSD's.

Nothing (IMHO) does it as well as SUSE - it's stable, secure, feature rich, easy to configure (also allowing total freedom to go as deep as you wish) and highly customisable.

I should join the SuSE sales team

Cheers
ZB aka ZazzySUSE

you and me both! i love suse, have used netbsd, turbo linux and some other varied variants and none have pleased me more than suse.

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I just checked out that Libranet website, the screen shots do show a very nice windows-like interface. Does SUSE have anything like that?

yes it does. right out of the box the KDE setup is easy to use. (cant comment on gnome as i dont use it)

and about suse not being good for a busy server, thats just bull. you can configure the system however you want, and itll run flawlessly.

Code:

joe@farragutmarine:/home/joe
$> uptime
  7:43pm  up 203 days,  1:17,  2 users,  load average: 8.08, 8.02, 8.01
joe@farragutmarine:/home/joe
$>

thats my email, web, ssh and other services server.

and it DOES carry a little bit of a load average. its not like a system thats flat zero all day.

that is running suse 8.1, on my desktop i am running 8.2 and will soon upgrade to 9. whatever it is now as soon as i have some more time for computers.

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elvtune

ELVTUNE(8)						      System Manager's Manual							ELVTUNE(8)

NAME

       elvtune - I/O elevator tuner

SYNOPSIS

       elvtune [-r r_lat] [-w w_lat] [-b b_max] device...
       elvtune -h
       elvtune -v

DESCRIPTION

       elvtune	allows	to  tune the I/O elevator per blockdevice queue basis. The tuning can be safely done at runtime. Tuning the elevator means
       being able to change disk performance and interactiveness. In the output of elvtune the address of the queue tuned will be shown and it can
       be  considered  as  a queue ID.	For example multiple partitions in the same harddisk will share the same queue and so tuning one partition
       will be like tuning the whole HD.

OPTIONS

       -r r_lat
	      set the max latency that the I/O scheduler will provide on each read.

       -w w_lat
	      set the max latency that the I/O scheduler will provide on each write.

       -b b_max
	      max coalescing factor allowed on writes when there are reads pending in the queue.

       -h     help.

       -v     version.

NOTE

       Actually the only fields tunable are those relative to the IO scheduler. It's not possible to select a one-way or two-way elevator yet.

       For logical blockdevices like LVM the tuning has to be done on the physical devices. Tuning the queue of the LVM logical device is useless.

RETURN VALUE

       0 on success and 1 on failure.

HISTORY

       Ioctls for tuning elevator behaviour were added in Linux 2.3.99-pre1.

AUTHORS

       Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> SuSE

AVAILABILITY

       The elvtune command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.

Version 1.0							   14 March 2000							ELVTUNE(8)