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From: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r253002 - head
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 19:25:34 -0700
To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
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On Jul 7, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 7/7/13 2:01 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> Why the magic number 12?
>=20
> Numbers higher seem to result in worse performance as reported by some mem=
bers of my team.

The suggestion is good in spirit, but this doesn't justify the reasoning for=
 this recommendation for all cases.

Please revert this change and add a doc page or notes to the dev handbook di=
scussing what the empirical process and results were for determining this va=
lue so people can come up with their own values that work best with their ha=
rdware and software config. This recommendation is prone to bitrot like some=
 of the recommendations in tuning(7).

Misinformation is sometimes more harmful than no information.

Thanks,
-Garrett=