Re: Very long raid5 init/rebuild times

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On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 19:02:21 -0600 Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 1/23/2014 8:28 AM, John Stoffel wrote:
> 
> > But more importantly, maybe it would make sense to have this number
> > automatically scale with memory size?  If you only have 1gig stay at
> > 256, but then jump more aggresively to 1024, 2048, 4196 and 8192 and
> > then (for now) capping at 8192.  
> 
> Setting the default based strictly on memory capacity won't work.  See
> this discussion for background.
> 
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg45364.html
> 

I would like to see the stripe cache grow on demand, shrink when idle, and
use the "shrinker" interface to shrink even when not idle if there is memory
pressure.
So if someone wants a project....

NeilBrown

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