> People should be more specific than just "dont use raid!".
> Modern hardware
> raid-boxes with GB's of cache are blazingly fast even on
> RAID-5. Ofcourse
> you shouldn't spend such money for cache which you can lose
> without problems,
> but if you have some free space on some raid-box why not use it..
>
You are absolutely right. I have been using a raid-5 cache dir
of 40Gb for 3 years with no performance problems at all.
This setup was not really intentional, but the box was that way
let's say.
The only thing I can see is, that from past incidents that there
is still plenty of 'spare-throughput' w.r.t. current load in http reqs/sec.
I tend someday to reconfigure the box, if for instance squid-3 comes out
because I am getting to old on the os installed too (linux 2.2).
But for the moment there is no need at all to go into those things.
M.
Received on Thu Dec 09 2004 - 02:24:28 MST
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