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Re: What stripe size for mail server?



also sprach Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch> [2004.11.11.0842 +0100]:
> To optimize random small reads, it's best if a read can be satisfied by 
> touching only one disk, so large stripe sizes should be better - with your 
> avg file size, 8k or 16k stripes should be fine; even 4k probably wouldn't 
> hurt much.

We are using the default, 64k on a server with 140 users and about
80 mails/second, with a mail store of 27 Gb, with an AMD K6 1.2 GHz,
1 Gb RAM, and three Maxtor Ultra9 7200 PATA disks. No problems.

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