Re: 4k stacks on 32-bit, 8k stacks on 64-bit

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

David Kewley wrote:
> On Thursday 26 May 2005 10:34, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
> > If you just run local xfs without stacking other drivers above/below
> > it in the IO chain, you'll be less likely to hit a problem.
>
>
> Thanks Eric.  Unfortunately, my typical application has a stack like 
> this:
>
> 3w-9xxx (JBOD since hw RAID5 is extremely slow in my hands)
> md (RAID 6)
> lvm2
> xfs
> nfs
>
> What's your educated guess about the likelihood of hitting problems with 
> this stack, assuming ~10 busy nfs clients?

on ia32 you're doomed.  on x86_64 I'd test it.  :)

-Eric