Re: [PERFORM] Setup of four 15k SAS disk with LSI raid controller

2013-03-13 Thread Niels Kristian Schjødt
Den 13/03/2013 kl. 20.01 skrev Joshua D. Drake : > > On 03/13/2013 11:45 AM, Vasilis Ventirozos wrote: >> Its better to split WAL segments and data just because these two have >> different io requirements and because its easier to measure and tune >> things if you have them on different disks. >

Re: [PERFORM] Setup of four 15k SAS disk with LSI raid controller

2013-03-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 03/13/2013 11:45 AM, Vasilis Ventirozos wrote: Its better to split WAL segments and data just because these two have different io requirements and because its easier to measure and tune things if you have them on different disks. Generally speaking you are correct but we are talking about R

Re: [PERFORM] Setup of four 15k SAS disk with LSI raid controller

2013-03-13 Thread Vasilis Ventirozos
Its better to split WAL segments and data just because these two have different io requirements and because its easier to measure and tune things if you have them on different disks. Vasilis Ventirozos On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Niels Kristian Schjødt < nielskrist...@autouncle.com> wrote:

Re: [PERFORM] Setup of four 15k SAS disk with LSI raid controller

2013-03-13 Thread Niels Kristian Schjødt
Den 13/03/2013 kl. 19.15 skrev Vasilis Ventirozos : > raid0 tends to linear scaling so 3 of them should give something close to > 300% increased write speed. So i would say 1. but make sure you test your > configuration as soon as you can with bonnie++ or something similar > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2

Re: [PERFORM] Setup of four 15k SAS disk with LSI raid controller

2013-03-13 Thread Vasilis Ventirozos
raid0 tends to linear scaling so 3 of them should give something close to 300% increased write speed. So i would say 1. but make sure you test your configuration as soon as you can with bonnie++ or something similar On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Niels Kristian Schjødt < nielskrist...@autouncle.

[PERFORM] Setup of four 15k SAS disk with LSI raid controller

2013-03-13 Thread Niels Kristian Schjødt
I have a server with 32GB ram, one intel E3-1245 and four 15k SAS disks with a BB LSI MegaRaid controller. I wan't the optimal performance for my server, which will be pretty write heavy at times, and less optimized for redundancy, as my data is not very crucial and I will be running a streaming