Mark, how often did you run your tests? Are the results reproduceable? On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 14:00:01 -0800 (PST), markw@osdl.org wrote: > Linux-2.6.3, LVM2 Stripe Width > (going across) >PostgreSQL >BLCKSZ >(going down) 16 KB 32 KB 64 KB 128 KB 256 KB 512 KB >2 KB 2617 2656 2652 2664 2667 2642 >4 KB 4393 4486 4577 4557 4511 4448 >8 KB 4337 4423 4471 4576 4111 3642 >16 KB 4412 4495 4532 4536 2985 2312 >32 KB 3705 3784 3886 3925 2936 2362 Unless someone can present at least an idea of a theory why a BLCKSZ of 8 KB is at a local minimum (1 or 2% below the neighbouring values) for stripe widths up to 64 KB I'm not sure whether we can trust these numbers. Before I hit the send button, I did a quick check of the link you provided. The links in the table contain the following test numbers: 16 KB 32 KB 64 KB 128 KB 256 KB 512 KB 2 KB 72 71 70 69 66 65 4 KB 64 63 62 61 60 58 8 KB 54 53 52 51 50 49 16 KB 79 78 77 76 75 74 32 KB 86 85 84 83 82 80 Does this mean that you first ran all test with 8 KB, then with 4, 2, 16 and 32 KB BLCKSZ? If so, I suspect that you are measuring the effects of something different. Servus Manfred _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/