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Date:      Fri, 2 Mar 2007 10:43:34 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0 
Message-ID:  <20070302104219.B5845@chylonia.3miasto.net>
In-Reply-To: <45E7F09B.7070005@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
References:  <45E7F09B.7070005@zedat.fu-berlin.de>

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> another while the box didn't do anything else than copying. I watched the 
> copy process via 'systat -vmstat 1' and realized, that the value of 'KB/t' 
> never go byond 128 (128kb buffer limit?). But more frustrating, I never got

what's wrong? FreeBSD uses 128k limit by default.

edit /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h

and change

#define MAXPHYS         (128 * 1024)   /* max raw I/O transfer size */


to say

#define MAXPHYS         (1024 * 1024)   /* max raw I/O transfer size */




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