Kenneth Marshall wrote:
Additionally are there any clear choices w/ regard to filesystem
types? ?Our choices would be xfs, ext3, or ext4.
Well, there's a lot of people who use xfs and ext3. XFS is generally
rated higher than ext3 both for performance and reliability. However,
we run Centos 5 in production, and XFS isn't one of the blessed file
systems it comes with, so we're running ext3. It's worked quite well
for us.
The other optimizations are using data=writeback when mounting the
ext3 filesystem for PostgreSQL and using the elevator=deadline for
the disk driver. I do not know how you specify that for Ubuntu.
After a reading various articles, I thought that "noop" was the right choice when you're using a battery-backed RAID controller. The RAID controller is going to cache all data and reschedule the writes anyway, so the kernal schedule is irrelevant at best, and can slow things down.
On Ubuntu, it's
echo noop >/sys/block/hdx/queue/scheduler
where "hdx" is replaced by the appropriate device.
Craig
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