[rsyslog] reliability of SSD disks?

[david at lang.hm]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Rainer Gerhards wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rsyslog-bounces at lists.adiscon.com [mailto:rsyslog-
>> bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of david at lang.hm
>>
>> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Aaron Wiebe wrote:
>>
>>> SSD's are as reliable, if not more reliable, than your regular
>> spinning rust.
>>>
>>> But if you want to get even more speed, and just as much reliability,
>>> check out fusionio.com.  They're launching a consumer market PCIe
>> card
>>> at 80GB this year (at $800 a card).  The technology is -very- cool
>>> though, I got a presentation about it this week (and met the woz!).
>>
>> I have one of their cards, at the moment they are no faster than a
>> normal
>> SSD for rsyslog (in large part due to bottlenecks in rsyslog).
>
> The bottleneck is due to the frequent file open/closes in ultra-reliable
> mode, I assume? Or anything else?

that was the obvious one that stood out for me. I suspect that there are 
others, but we haven't investigated much yet.

David Lang