Sascha Ottolski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now my question is: what kind of hardware would I need? Lots of RAM > seems to be obvious, what ever "a lot" may be...What about the disk > subsystem? Should I look into something like RAID-0 with many disk to > push the IO-performance?
First things first: instead of a few large disks, you want lots of small fast ones - 36 GB or 72 GB 10,000 RPM disks - to maximize bandwidth. There are two ways you might condfigure your storage: one is to place all the disks in a RAID-0 array and use a single file system and storage file on top of that. The alternative is to have a separate file system and storage file on each disk. I honestly don't know which will be the fastest; if you have a chance to run some benchmarks, I'd love to see your numbers and your conclusion. Note that even if a single RAID-0 array turns out to be the fastest option, you may have to compromise and split your disks into two arrays, unless you find a RAID controller that can handle the number of disks you need. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav Senior Software Developer Linpro AS - www.linpro.no _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
