On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 jeff.richards@centrelink.gov.au wrote:
> >> b) Squid is the worst case application for RAID5 and will absolutely
> kill
> >> the performance of a RAID5. RAID1 is fine, and so is separate drives.
>
> Do you mean both hardware AND software Raid-5? What's the issue?
RAID5 in general. Hardware or software does not make a big difference.
Once the cache has been filled Squid uses a lot of small random writes
which the worst case workload for RAID5, effectively reducing write speed
to only little more than that of one single drive.
Regards
Henrik
Received on Mon Nov 24 2003 - 02:05:17 MST
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