Le Thursday 08 November 2007 19:22:48 Scott Marlowe, vous avez écrit : > On Nov 8, 2007 10:43 AM, Vivek Khera <khera@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Nov 6, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Greg Smith wrote: > > > elsewhere. But once you have enough disks in an array to spread all > > > the load over that itself may improve write throughput enough to > > > still be a net improvement. > > > > This has been my expeience with 14+ disks in an array (both RAID10 and > > RAID5). The difference is barely noticeable. > > Mine too. May we conclude from this that mixing WAL and data onto the same array is a good idea starting at 14 spindles? The Dell 2900 5U machine has 10 spindles max, that would make 2 for the OS (raid1) and 8 for mixing WAL and data... not enough to benefit from the move, or still to test? > I would suggest though, that by the time you get to 14 > disks, you switch from RAID-5 to RAID-6 so you have double redundancy. > Performance of a degraded array is better in RAID6 than RAID5, and > you can run your rebuilds much slower since you're still redundant. Is raid6 better than raid10 in term of overall performances, or a better cut when you need capacity more than throughput? Thanks for sharing the knowlegde, regards, -- dim ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly