On Tuesday March 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Tomka Gergely wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> > 
> > > Have you tried increasing your readahead values for the md device?
> > 
> > Yes. No real change. According to my humble mental image, readahead not a 
> > too useful thing, when we read 1-4 thread with sdd. The io subsystem 
> > already reading with the possible maximum speed, so don't have time to 
> > read ahead. Correct me, if i wrong. 
> 
> I was wrong, readahead can speed things up, to 450 MBps.

Can you tell use what read-ahead size you needed?

15 drives and 64K chunks gives 960K per stripe.
The raid0 code should set the read-ahead to twice that: 1920K
which I would have thought would be enough, but apparently not.

Thanks,
NeilBrown
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