Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:12:03 -0600 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: vinum advice sought Message-ID: <20010226161202.A18209@polands.org>
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Hello, I'm building a modest file server for a small, non-critical network of M$Win users. Typical users will be using M$ Office apps reading and writing binary files. Some files will get quite large (as in Outlook mail files) and word files with lots of graphics. Unless I'm way off the mark, I'd like to optimize for speed so the windows users (PIII 500-900MHz) won't be frustrated with delays and be tempted to save files on local HD. This is my config... Ethernet: 10/100 Intel and 10/100 SMC NICS Clients: PIII 500-900MHz (between 5 and 20) Server: PII 200MHz 48MB RAM 4.2-RELEASE (soon to be -STABLE) Using latest samba Host adapter: single AH2940 NIC: single 10/100 Intel HDs: 3600RPM IBM SCSI-2 (total of 7) Given this, could someone recommend a vinum config that will give the best performance possible on this hardware? I've read and somewhat understand the following resources: vinum(4) and (8) man pages. http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/Performance-issues.html http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/FreeBSD/vinum.html http://www.freebsddiary.org/vinum.html As I understand, there may not be a "best" way to configure a vinum system. Since I've never done this before, I don't understand the nuances between number of spindles, drivers/controller, the influences of stripe size, RAID-1 mirroring, request size, concurrency, request structure. I'm not a sysadmin by training so go easy on me please :) -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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