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From: "Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Subject: Re: stripe_cache_size and performance
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:19:37 -0700
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> 7. And now, the question: the best absolute 'write' performance comes
> with a stripe_cache_size value of 4096 (for my setup). However, any
> value of stripe_cache_size above 384 really, really hurts 'check' (and
> rebuild, one can assume) performance.  Why?
>
Question:
After performance goes "bad" does it go back up if you reduce the size
back down to 384?

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> Jon Nelson <jnelson-linux-raid@jamponi.net>

Dan