On 2013-06-17 10:45, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jun 2013, Corey Hickey wrote: > >> Is 256 really a reasonable default? Given what I've been seeing, it >> appears that 256 is either unreasonably low or I have something else >> wrong. > > It's a safe setting for a low memory system. 1 megabyte per drive can > probably be handled by most systems. > > It's expected that you know how to tune this yourself, right now. I seem > to remember Neil saying something a few years back about it being > desireable for the stripe-cache to be auto-tuned depending on size of > available RAM, but probably other things was higher priority plus it's not > obvious exactly what the settings should be depending on how much RAM you > have. That would seem like a good thing. Thanks, Corey -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html