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From: "Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.20: stripe_cache_size goes boom with 32mb
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:11:44 -0700
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On 2/23/07, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com> wrote:
> I have 2GB On this machine.  For me, 8192 seems to be the sweet spot, I
> will probably keep it at 8mb.
>
Just a note stripe_cache_size = 8192 = 192MB with six disks.

The calculation is:
stripe_cache_size * num_disks * PAGE_SIZE = stripe_cache_size_bytes

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Dan