We use Lighttpd a lot these days to offload our Apache2 servers. More specific we use Lighttpd to serve all the static content (images, stylesheets, javascript files and such). Since one of our customers wanted a clear view I did some performance testing. I used siege with 500 concurrent connections with a list of urls [...]

Great what you can do with commodity hardware these days: storage-mc:/data# dd if=/dev/zero of=test.img bs=1M count=102400 102400+0 records in 102400+0 records out 107374182400 bytes (107 GB) copied, 698.145 seconds, 154 MB/s 4 x WD 500GB RE2 disks in RAID1+0. With a 4-port Areca 1210 hardware raid card. Sure beats Linux software RAID1 with performance. Nothing [...]

We recently experienced some performance problems with an Ubuntu machine with software raid1. To localize it a bit further I ran some tests on different setups. For comparison I also included a setup with hardware raid and a setup with software raid on CentOS, I will also post the specs of the machines in question [...]