Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 03:09:50 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au (Stephen McKay) Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au Subject: Re: New timeout capability (was Re: cvs commit:....) Message-ID: <199709230809.DAA06787@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199709230619.QAA20746@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au> from Stephen McKay at "Sep 23, 97 04:19:00 pm"
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Stephen McKay said: > On Monday, 22nd September 1997, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > >In message <199709221910.NAA02147@rocky.mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes: > > > >>Can you explain a bit more about your 'rover' setup, and how it's used? > > > >The "rover" in my lab is named after it's more adventurous namesake > >on Mars... > > [Fun workbench elided] > > Sounds like an excellent setup! Wow, hard facts! > > >If you have a change you want tested, I should be able to give > >the result back to you in one or two days. (I only ask in return > >that I may publish the results in case I write a paper on this > >experiment later on). > > I've always wanted to know how much it costs to run with 4Kb file system > blocks vs 8Kb or now even 16Kb. Oh, and the real cost of various minfree > percentages. No obligation, of course, but you might be interested too... > 32K or even 64K should work :-). With our upcoming dynamic buffer size allocation, we could even do 256K? :-). -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com
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