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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Subject: Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?
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In response to Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>:

> 
> 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?

http://www.google.com/search?q=freebsd+vfs.read_max

... although it doesn't seem to be "officially" documented anywhere.

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