On Tuesday August 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I have performance problem. (again) :-)
> 
> What chunk size is better in  raid5, and raid0?
> The lot of small chunks, or some bigger?

This is highly dependant one workload and hardware performance. 
The best thing to do is develop a test that simulates your real
workload and run it with various stripe sizes, and see which one wins.

I suspect there would be very little gain in going to very small chunk
sizes (<16k).  Anywhere between there and 1Meg is worth trying.

mdadm uses a default of 64k which is probably not too bad for most
situations, but I cannot promise it being optimal for any.

Sorry I cannot be more helpful.

Your performance problem may not be chunk-size related.  Maybe
increasing the readahead (with blockdev) would help...

NeilBrown
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