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Subject: Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?
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Bill Moran writes:

>  It's common knowledge that the default value for vfs.read_max is
>  non- optimal for most hardware and that significant performance
>  improvements can be made in most cases by raising it.

	Documentation/discussion where?

	Respectfully,


					Robert Huff