From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jul 26 14:39:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from proteus.eclipse.net.uk (proteus.eclipse.net.uk [195.188.32.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ABB61510F for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 14:39:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@eclipse.net.uk) Received: from eclipse.net.uk (elara.eclipse.net.uk [195.188.32.31]) by proteus.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E411D9B07 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:39:10 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <379CD5CF.FB60F6FA@eclipse.net.uk> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:40:31 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson Organization: Eclipse Networking Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID controllers References: <379CAD24.9285F233@eaznet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > In talking with other SkyCache users, and myself included, it's > collective opinion that RAID-5 doesn't help in a Squid Proxy setup. the opposite, in fact. if your raid requires a reboot to change config, it's less flexible than CAM with hotswap bays, and raid5 slows down writes (of which you have many more than you do reads). > The # of drives and channels has much more of an effect than RAID > does. In my opinion, you should probably spend more money on drives > and channels than using RAID. ...and RAM, squid from ramdisk _flies_ :-) Anyone here tried Peregrine yet? Any comments? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message