Hi everyone,
just reading loads of articles before setting up my server again for F15 ....
I always thought:
large files --> big chunk size
small files --> small chunk size
Since my server is mostly movies, photo's, music I used to have a larger chunk size. Reading
this article made me wonder if this was correct:
Quote:
Do you do video editing or a lot of Photoshop work? Then your average request size will be large and your performance will be dominated by how long it takes to get the data to or from the disks. So you want a lot of bandwidth to move data quickly. To get a lot of bandwidth you want each disk to shoulder part of the load, so you want a small chunk size. What is small? Anywhere from 512 bytes (one block) to 8 KB.
If you are running a database and doing lots of small I/Os - 512 bytes to 4 KB say - then you want to maximize your IOPS, which ideally means sending each I/O to only one disk and spreading the I/Os evenly across the disks. What you don’t want is a single I/O getting sent to two disks, since waiting for the heads will slow things down. So you want a large chunk size - at least 64 KB or more. That large chunk will mean that most I/Os get serviced by a single disk and more I/Os are available on the remaining disks.
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Any thoughts or feedback is welcome. I mainly run it as a samba share to directly edit files on the server.
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