Re: [squid-users] Squid HD Limitation

>>> On Thursday 25 February 2010 13:42:52 Amos Jeffries wrote:
>>>> My opinion of RAID behind Squid is very poor. Avoid if at all possible.
>>>>
>>>> HW RAID is claimed to be workable though, particularly as the price
>>>> range and quality goes up.

On 27.02.10 13:12, Marcus Kool wrote:
> What hardware RAID solution is being used ?
> I like to know details like battery-backed write cache and its size.
> For the RAID0 part, the stripe size is important and should be
> larger than the average object size (usually 13 KB). This is to avoid
> using 2 disks for 1 logical read. I would recommend a stripe size of 64 KB
> or more. When you have lots of large objects, an even larger stripe size
> is recommended.

for RAID0 part, it better should not being used. there's no speed
improvement in RAID0, unless you have less parallel requests than disks.

-- 
Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uhlar@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/
Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address.
Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu.
Spam is for losers who can't get business any other way.