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On 4 Jan 2013, at 20:39, Rick Macklem wrote:

> What about capturing a few examples, like this one for a system with
> 16Gb of Ram. Basically cases of:
> - this is my hardware config and here's what works well for me
> It's pretty easy for people to choose the example closest to their
> setup as a starting point.

This would be very helpful.  One of the longer-term goals for the =
storage stack is to make all of these things self-tuning, and some =
well-tested data points showing system configuration, workload, and =
performance would be a good starting point for this.

David=