Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 5 Nov 2001 15:00:11 +0100 (CET) | From | Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <> | Subject | Re: Lots of questions about tux and kernel setup |
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> to answer other "not asked" questions of yours ill point you to : > http://www.specbench.org/osg/web99/results/res2000q4/web99-20001127-00075.html > > as that should help you very much :) (that /proc tweaking its pretty cool)
Thanks!
Just one thing...
I need redundancy, so I can't go with RAID 0. I thought I'd go with RAID 4, to avoid reading the parity info (and thereby wasting time), and still have some quite good redundancy.
Q: Should I use hardware RAID or software RAID here? I can see they've been using a rather large stripe (or chunk) size on the RAID (2MB). The RAID controller I planned to use only supports up to 512kB stripes. As I said, the files I'm reading are rather large - up to 10GB each, or at least 1GB. I'm reading 4-7Mbps (500-900kB) per connection and each connection reads only one file. Will a large stripe size help me here?
roy
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