William Stucke wrote: > Adam Aube said: - >> The only caution about RAID I have seen is that RAID-5 will kill disk >> performance with Squid (due to its usage profile)
> How? Why? Please explain. Just because the FAQ says so doesn't make it > true, or explain why. Squid makes a large number of random small writes, which is the worst case performance for RAID-5 (or any other form of RAID that does striping). I'm paraphrasing Henrik Nordstrom; this has been a common theme in his many posts to the list on this subject: http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200004/0302.html http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200006/0458.html http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200206/0121.html http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200308/0124.html http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200311/0925.html Adam
