On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 12:52:17AM +0200, Mikael Carneholm wrote: > Now to the interesting part: would it make sense to use different stripe > sizes on the separate disk arrays? In theory, a smaller stripe size > (8-32K) should increase sequential write throughput at the cost of > decreased positioning performance, which sounds good for WAL (assuming > WAL is never "searched" during normal operation).
For large writes (ie. sequential write throughput), it doesn't really matter what the stripe size is; all the disks will have to both seek and write anyhow. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly