From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 16 22:17:10 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 656A1106564A for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:17:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from ozzie.tundraware.com (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 076528FC0A for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:17:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (viper.tundraware.com [192.168.0.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by ozzie.tundraware.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q7GM53WH086639 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:05:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <502D6E88.8020000@tundraware.com> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:04:56 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120714 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <47AFB706686083E99B3A3F3E@localhost> <20120816180257.6f5d58e5.steve@sohara.org> <175D3B4E21331C5682EE2148@localhost> In-Reply-To: <175D3B4E21331C5682EE2148@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (ozzie.tundraware.com [192.168.0.1]); Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:05:03 -0500 (CDT) X-TundraWare-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-TundraWare-MailScanner-ID: q7GM53WH086639 X-TundraWare-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-TundraWare-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: Best file system for a busy webserver X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:17:10 -0000 On 08/16/2012 01:16 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: >> Paul Schmehl 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 a pair of 60G SSD drives like the OCZ Vertex IIIs (About $1/G these days) wired into a *hardware* RAID controller setup to mirror them. This gives you blazing speed and reliability. If you want to add another drive, you can make it RAID 5 which - with the right cabinet and mounting hardware - would give you hotswap capability. I know people are fond of software RAID but I personally do not consider this a very high reliability technology unless you're running true datacenter class hardware with redundant everything (disk, NIC, fiber ...) and that's probably overkill in this case. Good RAID controllers are available from a number of manufacturers. I dunno if FreeBSD supports them, but Rocket has a good reputation (though I've never used them) as do both Adaptec and LSI. In any case, a controller plus 3 drives would probably only set you back in the $500-ish area which seems like a reasonable price point. Furthermore, depending on the amount of stuff that you're serving that is static vs. dynamic, you may get benefit from increasing memory (thereby increasing the likelihood of a cache hit) and increasing the minimum/threshold values for the number of httpd processing running all the time. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/