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Date:      Tue, 7 Jan 2020 22:12:59 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   maximum MAXBSIZE
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.2001072210410.21107@puchar.net>

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default MAXBSIZE is 128kB. badly low for todays magnetic disks.

i have it set to 2MB on all computers that have magnetic disks. Great 
improvement with large files. especially when more than one are read/wrote 
in parallel. And no problems experienced

But for optimal performance MAXBSIZE should be transfered in few times 
longer than average seek time. todays disk do 200-250MB/s so 2MB is 
transfered below 10ms.

8-16MB seems like good choice. is there any reason not to set it that 
high?



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