Re: Strip Size, AIX, IBM FastT Storage Questions

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:11:53 -0500, PEEK, CHRISTOPHER wrote: > We are in the process of bringing online a new Informix installation (current > plan is 9.4 on AIX 5.1L.) I wanted to see if anyone had any input on the > following questions: > > 1) What would be some recommendations/experience regarding stripe sizes for > RAID 10 arrays? Just a comment on this one. IDS runs better with very small stripe sizes. Less than 64K is good, 16K seems best most of the times I've tested it. Yes I know the vendor's filesystem benchmarks show sizes of 128K and even 256K perform best, but IDS is not a filesystem. Art S. Kagel > 2) Is anyone running Informix 9.2x or 9.4x series engines on AIX 5.1 or 5.2? > Any gotchas to be careful of? > > 3) Is anyone running Informix 9.2x or 9.4x series engines on a FastT storage > array? What type of storage setup do you have and how did you arrive at it? > > Thanks, Chris > > sending to informix-list