On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> b) Squid is the worst case application for RAID5 and will absolutely > kill > >> the performance of a RAID5. RAID1 is fine, and so is separate drives. > > Do you mean both hardware AND software Raid-5? What's the issue?
RAID5 in general. Hardware or software does not make a big difference. Once the cache has been filled Squid uses a lot of small random writes which the worst case workload for RAID5, effectively reducing write speed to only little more than that of one single drive. Regards Henrik
