Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 23:52:27 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: michaelh@cet.co.jp, tom@sdf.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, isp@FreeBSD.org, mmead@goof.com, taob@vex.net Subject: Re: Maxcontig for news server (was Re: freebsd as a news server?) Message-ID: <199703111252.XAA13817@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> The default maxcontig setting for 2.1.x is just way too small. > >The default is 8 assuming a bsize of 8K, the man pages say it's 1. > > 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
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