Creating a new snapraid array with 10 data disks (10TB and smaller) and two 10TB parity disks. I only have 6GB RAM so I increased the blocksize to 512. My data files are large, only about 35k files/disk so parity overhead is tolerable.
I started initial sync which reported 2220 MiB memory used. I interrupted the sync as I forgot to specify a log file. On restart, sync reported 4454 MiB memory used. Searching the forum I found that a sync restart can double memory usage. https://sourceforge.net/p/snapraid/discussion/1677233/thread/30ff7b3056/#94a7
If I had used the 256 blocksize default, sync would have been ok to start but would be out of memory on restart.
Please add this information to the manual in the blocksize/hashsize section.
Thanks for a very useful program.
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Creating a new snapraid array with 10 data disks (10TB and smaller) and two 10TB parity disks. I only have 6GB RAM so I increased the blocksize to 512. My data files are large, only about 35k files/disk so parity overhead is tolerable.
I started initial sync which reported 2220 MiB memory used. I interrupted the sync as I forgot to specify a log file. On restart, sync reported 4454 MiB memory used. Searching the forum I found that a sync restart can double memory usage. https://sourceforge.net/p/snapraid/discussion/1677233/thread/30ff7b3056/#94a7
If I had used the 256 blocksize default, sync would have been ok to start but would be out of memory on restart.
Please add this information to the manual in the blocksize/hashsize section.
Thanks for a very useful program.