>> The reported numbers were a drop in read throughput of ~15% on a >> GB/s class filesystem when the files interleaved. I have seen ~50% performance improvement in read rate when changing from small extents to large extents with XFS. Essentially going from not using allocsize to setting 1gb allocsize. Also GB/s class filesystem. Cheers, Ivan Novick _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs