busy web server: logs on separate disks?
From: N.J. Thomas (njt_at_ayvali.org)
Date: 11/29/05
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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:38:17 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Given a webserver under moderately high load (where the httpd log files
grow at the rate of 400MB per day) and two disks, which of the following
is a better option:
1. put the OS and everything on disk 1, and put the logs on disk2.
2. put everything on one drive and mirror the disks
With #1, you get max performance since the second disk is pretty much a
write only disk. The downside is that in case the root disk crashes,
your server goes down.
With #2, you get the overhead and performance of two writes instead of
one, but a disk crash doesn't hurt as much -- you just run in degraded
mode until it is replaced.
Thomas
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