On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:17:25 -0500 "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:32:34PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > > > This 4-way has 8GB of memory and four Adaptec 2200s controllers attached > > > to 80 spindles (eight 10-disk arrays). For those familiar with the > > > schema, here is a visual of the disk layout: > > > http://www.osdl.org/projects/dbt2dev/results/dev4-015/layout-6.html > > Have you by-chance tried it with the logs and data just going to > seperate RAID10s? I'm wondering if a large RAID10 would do a better job > of spreading the load than segmenting things to specific drives. No, haven't tried that. That would reduce my number of spindles as I scale up. ;) I have the disks attached as JBODs and use LVM2 to stripe the disks together. Mark ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
