Dear friends, We are going to setup a busy web server with tens of web sites. What is the best practice for partitioning this system ?
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On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 10:55, CHAT KHODA wrote:
Dear friends, We are going to setup a busy web server with tens of web sites. What is the best practice for partitioning this system ?
Web server activities vary wildly depending on the type of site but typically the main file system work involves writing the log files. You might want /var/log to be on a separate drive to avoid disk head contention with anything else.
Dear Les, Thank you for replying, You advised to consider /var on a seperate disk,but what about others ? I assume that we have to consider at least 60G for websites and probably we are going to place them in /www. What is your idea ? is it better to consider a seperate partition for that ? our I can implement it under the / ? in this case we will have : / ~= 78G (HDA) Swap ~= 2G (HDA) Boot = 200MB (HDA) /var = 10G (HDB) What is your suggestion ?
--- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 10:55, CHAT KHODA wrote:
Dear friends, We are going to setup a busy web server with tens
of
web sites. What is the best practice for
partitioning
this system ?
Web server activities vary wildly depending on the type of site but typically the main file system work involves writing the log files. You might want /var/log to be on a separate drive to avoid disk head contention with anything else.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com
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On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 22:48, CHAT KHODA wrote:
Dear Les, Thank you for replying, You advised to consider /var on a seperate disk,but what about others ? I assume that we have to consider at least 60G for websites and probably we are going to place them in /www. What is your idea ? is it better to consider a seperate partition for that ? our I can implement it under the / ? in this case we will have : / ~= 78G (HDA) Swap ~= 2G (HDA) Boot = 200MB (HDA) /var = 10G (HDB) What is your suggestion ?
Most of those don't really matter as long as you have sufficient space. It is good to have /boot as a small partition and the first one on the drive. It is also good to separate areas that are frequently written from those that aren't to help reduce fragmentation. Other than that it boils down to disk head contention. If you can put your swap partion and /var/log on separate drives you can help performance by not having to do disk seek away from what you are reading to access them (disk seeks are much slower than any other operation). If they have to be on the same physical disk, then the partitioning doesn't matter that much. You might also want to be aware of whether the web sites use files or database connections to maintain state information or cache dynamic pages and keep that activity away from the log files. However if you have plenty of RAM, you don't have to worry so much about tuning the disk locations because more will be buffered in the disk cache.
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