Hi Ryan:
How do you have the file systems setup on the SATA RAID machine. Do you
have the entire toaster on the RAID 5 array? (i.e. the qmail queue as well
as the /home/vpopmail/domain directories). Which SATA RAID card are you
using and do you have write caching enabled.
In our case we're not really looking for a speed increase - mainly just
reliability - so we though RAID 1 mirroring would help.
At 01:26 PM 9/6/2007, you wrote:
I've run a SATA setup in one location for about 3 years now and a SAS setup
for about a year now. We've run RAID 5 on both setups and the servers have
over 1000 domains each. I've never seen any performance hits on the systems
at all. It seems like the only thing that helps performance of either of the
systems were the type of CPU's I had. The newer machine with 2 x dual core
XEON CPU's seems to process anything you throw at it with no issues at all.
The entire toaster install only took 15 minutes on that machine.
Ryan
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Koch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 11:49 AM
To: toaster@shupp.org
Subject: [toaster] toaster RAID setup
Has anyone successfully setup Bill's toaster with SATA RAID? A year or two
ago we setup a toaster with a two drive 3ware IDE RAID mirroring setup and
the performance was awful. Maybe it was because we didn't have write
caching enabled on the RAID controller or should have tweaked the kernel
settings.
I looked at Bill's proposed setup for an ISP but we're just trying to do
this for a single server setup. The only solution we've been able to come
up with in the past is to have a single small drive for booting, /var/qmail
and /var/logs and run SATA RAID for /home/vpopmail and everything else. But
we'd really like to have RAID running for the qmail queue since that's what
beats the hell out of a hard disk.
Any recommendations or experiences anyone?
Best Regards,
Jeff Koch
Best Regards,
Jeff Koch, Intersessions
