On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 01:43:27PM -0700, Phill wrote: > I'm rebuilding a RHEL 5 server used primarily for building code. > It has perc 6i controller and I'm installing 6 15K sas drives. > The plan is to setup a raid 10 configuration for improved performance. > Does anyone know if I can significantly increase or degrade my performance > by selecting a larger stripe size? The default is 64k and I have read in a > performance report that a 512k size may be more desirable for Linux systems. > Thanks for any replies. Well.. if you do large sequential reads/writes then big stripe size will help, but if you do small random-io then large stripe size like that will be really bad. It really depends on your workload. -- Pasi -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
