From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@shaw.ca>
Subject: slow random raid5 access?
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 13:44:15 -0600
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I'm have a new md raid5 array, and have been trying to break it in and tweak 
it a little. But random read or write are rather slow when using small record 
sizes:

http://pastebin.ca/1441414

Is that normal? And is there a way to speed it up without significantly 
slowing down sequential access?

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Thomas Fjellstrom
tfjellstrom@shaw.ca