>> b) any ideas how to optimize the settings of the /proc/sys/vm/
>> parameters? The documentation is a bit thin here.
>>
>>
>I cant offer any advice there, but is raid-5 really the best choice
>for your needs? I would not choose raid-5 for a system that is
>regularly performing lots of large writes at the same time, dont
>forget that each write can require several reads to recalculate the
>partity.
>
>Does the raid card have much cache ram?
>
192 MB, split 50/50 to read write.
>If you can afford to loose some space raid-10 would probably perform
>better.
RAID5 most likely is not the best solution and I would not use it if
the described use-case was happening all the time. It happens a few
times a day and then things go down when all memory is filled with
page-cache.
And the same also happens when copying large amountd of data from one
NFS mounted FS to another NFS mounted FS. No disk involved there.
Memory fills with page-cache until it reaches a ceeling and then for
some time responsiveness is really really bad.
I am just now playing with the dirty_* stuff. Maybe it helps.
Cheers
Martin
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Martin Knoblauch
email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de
www: http://www.knobisoft.de
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