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Date:      Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:46:46 +0100
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?
Message-ID:  <hf0lsf$5mk$2@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <19219.55350.599595.807654@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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Robert Huff wrote:
> 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?

There is no documentation except for the sysctl documentation itself: 
"vfs.read_max: Cluster read-ahead max block count" but it depends on the 
load - it helps sequential reads, will probably do nothing for other 
kinds of loads. It is also UFS-only.




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