# Bigger chunk size

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bigger-chunk-size/185971>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [March 29, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bigger-chunk-size/185971 "2010-03-29T22:26:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![pio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/f19dbf/32.png) [@pio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pio)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bigger-chunk-size/185971/1 "2010-03-29T22:26:15Z")

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Hi,

We have many large files (~700mb) and the problem is the disk (raid-0).  
Is there a chance to change the chunk size in nginx, i.e. read bigger  
blocks  
from the disk?

Lighttpd gained much performance from a bigger chunk size:

> **[linux AIO and large files - lighty's life](http://blog.lighttpd.net/articles/2006/11/14/linux-aio-and-large-files/)**
>
> The benchmarks only showed results for small files (100kbyte). Time to add larger files to the pool and talk about the chunk-size.
> I just push all …

Thank you very much  
Pio

Posted at Nginx Forum:

> **[Bigger chunk size](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,69210,69210#msg-69210)**
>
> Hi, We have many large files (~700mb) and the problem is the disk (raid-0). Is there a chance to change the chunk size in nginx, i.e. read bigger blocks from the disk? Lighttpd gained much performance from a bigger chunk size: http://blog.lighttpd