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Subject: Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>In message <427629CB.6060706@he.iki.fi>, Petri Helenius writes:
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>>My tests were using RAID10 and just striping. (RAID0 might be the right 
>>name for it)
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>Same thing applies, and it depends on how the reqeust alignment/size and
>stripe alignment/size interacts.
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I'm using either 64k or 1M buffer size with dd if=/dev/zero and of=/dev/da1

Pete