Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Paul Schmehl
Does anyone have any opinions on which file system is best for a busy webserver (7 million hits/month)? Is anyone one system noticeably better than any other? Just curious. I'm getting ready to setup a new box running FreeBSD 9, and since I'm starting from scratch, I'm questioning all my

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Does anyone have any opinions on which file system is best for a busy webserver (7 million hits/month)? Is anyone one system noticeably better than any other? Use stock UFS, just configure it properly. most importantly noatime. Amount of cached data is more important than hit count. Unless

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:45:25 -0500 Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: Does anyone have any opinions on which file system is best for a busy webserver (7 million hits/month)? Is anyone one system noticeably better than any other? That's an average of about 3 hits per

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Robert Bonomi
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:45:25 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com To: FreeBSD Questions List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Best file system for a busy webserver Does anyone have any opinions on which file system is best for a busy webserver (7 million hits/month

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On August 16, 2012 6:02:57 PM +0100 Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:45:25 -0500 Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: Does anyone have any opinions on which file system is best for a busy webserver (7 million hits/month)? Is anyone one system

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Robert Huff
Paul Schmehl writes: That's an average of about 3 hits per second. If it's static pages then pretty much anything will handle it easily (but please don't use FAT). If it's dynamic then the whole problem is more complex than a simple page rate. If that load is bursty it may make a

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
system is best for a busy webserver (7 million hits/month)? Is anyone one system noticeably better than any other? That's an average of about 3 hits per second. If it's static pages then pretty much anything will handle it easily (but please don't use FAT). If it's dynamic

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On August 16, 2012 9:42:30 PM +0100 Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org wrote: I don't even know where to begin. There's about 15G of data on the server. OK I would say there's no pressing reason to consider ZFS for this purpose. You'd save a bit of time in crash recovery with no

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 08/16/2012 01:16 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: Does anyone have any opinions on which file system is best for a busy webserver (7 million hits/month)? Is anyone one system noticeably better than any other? With only 15G of data, I'd recommend

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
OK I would say there's no pressing reason to consider ZFS for this another ZFS fanatics. it is about performance. direction for a filesystem, at 15GB if performance ever becomes a problem a RAID1 of SSDs with UFS would make it fly probably into the hundreds of hits per second range.

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
the OCZ Vertex IIIs (About $1/G these days) wired into a *hardware* RAID controller setup to mirror them. This gives you blazing speed just like i would read some popular street PC newspaper. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.comwrote: Does anyone have any opinions on which file system is best for a busy webserver (7 million hits/month)? Is anyone one system noticeably better than any other? Just curious. I'm getting ready to setup a new box