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Date:      Sun, 21 Mar 1999 07:46:13 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Tom <tom@sdf.com>, Nick Hilliard <nick@iol.ie>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dpt raid-5 performance
Message-ID:  <19990321074613.V429@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903200850440.12986-100000@misery.sdf.com>; from Tom on Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 08:55:27AM -0800
References:  <199903191422.OAA27845@beckett.earlsfort.iol.ie> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903200850440.12986-100000@misery.sdf.com>

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On Saturday, 20 March 1999 at  8:55:27 -0800, Tom wrote:
>
> On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>
>> If I set up a raid-5 system on these disks with a slice-size of 512K, the
>> write performance is terrible.  Bonnie reports:
>
>   512k will not result in very good single process write performance.
> In fact, 512k is suboptimal for many operations on RAID-5 arrays.

I disagree.  It's pretty much optimal for Vinum.  I'd be interested in
your reasoning.

> If you are optimizing for a single process, use something smaller
> (like 8k).

That's far, far too small.

Greg
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