While the advice on the problem may be correct, their explanation of
the culprit I think is incorrect. Applications don't care about the
block size, that is abstracted out by the file system. Typically the
block size defaults to 4k, but that is changeable to a wide range to
suit your data needs
Hi! We're setting up a Solaris system which is behaving poorly, very slow
disk performance. The nice folks at Sun have suggested a mismatch between
the block size MySQL is writing to disk and the block size the the Operating
System is writing to disk.
While we can see the logic in the argument, I
