On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 05:18:42AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > The powers that be, Linus in particular, are not fond of default > settings that create a lot of kernel memory structures. The default > md-RAID5/6 stripe_cache-size yields 1MB consumed per member device. The default sizing is stupid as it basically makes RAID unusable out of the box, I always have to fix that up, as well as a somewhat reasonable chunk size for parity RAID to make it usable. I'm also pretty sure I complained about it at least once a while ago, but never got a reply. -- 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