I would recommend trying out several stripe sizes, and making your own
measurements.
A while ago I was involved in building a data warehouse system (Oracle,
DB2) and after several file and db benchmark exercises we used 256K
stripes, as these gave the best overall performance results for both
This is somthing I wish more of us did on the lists. The list archives
have solutions and workarounds for every variety of problem but very few
summary emails exist. A good example of this practice is in the
sun-managers mailling list. The original poster sends a SUMMARY reply
to the list with
One big caveat re. the SAME striping strategy, is that readahead can
really hurt an OLTP you.
Mind you, if you're going from a few disks to a caching array with many
disks, it'll be hard to not have a big improvement
But if you push the envelope of the array with a SAME configuration,
Hi,
at first, many thanks for your valuable replies. On my quest for the
ultimate hardware platform I'll try to summarize the things I learned.
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This is our current setup:
Hardware:
Dual Xeon DP 2.4 on a TYAN S2722-533 with HT enabled
