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On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 12:52 +0200, Dave Strydom wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm setting up a server which is mainly qmail / vpopmail |
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> i have a intel srcs16 raid controller card in the machine with 3 300GB |
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> hdd, and i want to configure it for raid5, what is the best stripe |
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> size to use? |
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That's hard to predict :-) |
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You could try different stripe sizes and use a benchmark tool like |
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bonnie to check the throughput. |
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In general I'd assume that a mail server has to handle many small files, |
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so a smaller stripe size should be better - 64k or 128k I guess. I |
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haven't had any disk-related performance problems yet, I think the |
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difference between 64/128/256k stripe size is negligible - but if in |
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doubt test it yourself! |
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Hope that helps, |
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Patrick |
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