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From: Brendan Conoboy <blc@redhat.com>
To: Franck Routier <franck.routier@axege.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2x6 or 3x4 raid10 arrays ?
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:54:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47C6E72B.6060402@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1204195554.16924.16.camel@franck-gusty>

Franck Routier wrote:
> I am under the impression that I will get better results with requests
> spread over 3 less effective arrays rather than two slightly more effive
> one.

Depends on your workload.  If you use a larger chunk size, regardless of 
raid layout, you can try to get each db transaction to only hit one 
spindle.  Seek time being a limiting factor, this may scale better when 
you have dozens of simultaneous requests.

-- 
Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / blc@redhat.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-28 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-28 10:45 2x6 or 3x4 raid10 arrays ? Franck Routier
2008-02-28 11:22 ` Tim Southerwood
2008-02-28 16:54 ` Brendan Conoboy [this message]
2008-02-28 18:25 ` Janek Kozicki
2008-02-28 20:53   ` Janek Kozicki
2008-02-28 21:04     ` Brendan Conoboy
2008-03-01 20:07     ` Bill Davidsen
2008-03-01 20:55       ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-02-28 22:36 ` Nat Makarevitch
2008-03-01 20:40   ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-03-01 21:10     ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-03-01 22:05     ` Nat Makarevitch
2008-03-02  0:30       ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-03-02  9:00         ` Nat Makarevitch
2008-03-01 20:18 ` Bill Davidsen

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