On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 06:41:37PM -0000, Mohan, Ross wrote: > Don't you think "optimal stripe width" would be > a good question to research the binaries for? I'd > think that drives the answer, largely. (uh oh, pun alert) > > EG, oracle issues IO requests (this may have changed _just_ > recently) in 64KB chunks, regardless of what you ask for. > So when I did my striping (many moons ago, when the Earth > was young...) I did it in 128KB widths, and set the oracle > "multiblock read count" according. For oracle, any stripe size > under 64KB=stupid, anything much over 128K/258K=wasteful. > > I am eager to find out how PG handles all this.
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