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Subject: Re: NFS - slow
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> new (default on 9) sets it to MAXBSIZE, which is currently 64K, but
> I would like to get that increased. (A quick test suggested that the
> kernel works when MAXBSIZE is set to 128K, but I haven't done much
> testing yet.)

>From a long time my kernels have MAXBSIZE of 2 megabytes which is right 
value for modern hard drives and gives FAR better performance. I don't 
know why it isn't default.


I will test NFSv4 again today.