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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Maxcontig for news server (was Re: freebsd as a news server?)
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>>   The default maxcontig setting for 2.1.x is just way too small.
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>The default is 8 assuming a bsize of 8K, the man pages say it's 1.
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>        if (maxcontig == 0)
>                maxcontig = MAX(1, MAXPHYS / bsize - 1);
>
>MAXPHYS is 64K.

maxcontig has little effect anyway in the default case, since the default
rotdelay of 0 means that there is no gap between each group of 1+maxcontig
blocks.

Bruce