What is the recommended server configuration for WAL storage, such as SSD, RAID level, cache strategy of RAID card, NUMA configuration, file system, I/O scheduling strategy of the operating system?

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WAL belongs to ordered writing, and currently, we do not apply a unique configuration to it. Recommended configuration is as follows:

  • SSD
  • RAID 10 preferred
  • Cache strategy of RAID card and I/O scheduling strategy of the operating system: currently no specific best practices; you can use the default configuration in Linux 7 or later
  • NUMA: no specific suggestion; for memory allocation strategy, you can use interleave = all
  • File system: ext4