Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:10:28 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Poor RAID performance demystified Message-ID: <iclg6r$pu1$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimKQKxn1415bYHivve46r=TJ%2BcgS0eiGTRXzNqZ@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimKQKxn1415bYHivve46r=TJ%2BcgS0eiGTRXzNqZ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/25/10 10:20, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > If you > still need greater write performance on tiny transactions, consider > getting a battery backup unit (BBU) for your RAID adapter. Quite > remarkably, HP refer to them as "Write-back Cache Enablers" because > installing one is the only way to get an HP RAID adapter do write-back > caching. A write-back cache with BBU will let the adapter delay and > coalesce tiny writes without jeopardizing the DB integrity. However, > you'll need to trust your BBU as your DB integrity will be staked on > it (the PG folks are somehow skeptical about BBUs). HP also has (and so do probably others by now) capacitor-backed flash caches; the theory is to have a fast random IO chunk of flash memory and use the capacitor to keep the power up for as long as the flash needs to write its large blocks. I've tried it and the performance is good, but don't have it in production yet.
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