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Date:      Tue, 7 Jan 2020 22:47:54 +0000
From:      Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: maximum MAXBSIZE
Message-ID:  <YQBPR0101MB1427EEDE94AA6E34B49C3C09DD3F0@YQBPR0101MB1427.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
In-Reply-To: <d79078c4-f1cb-93b9-ee6e-f689936c1e01@selasky.org>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.2001072210410.21107@puchar.net>, <d79078c4-f1cb-93b9-ee6e-f689936c1e01@selasky.org>

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Hans Petter Selasky wrote:=0A=
>On 2020-01-07 22:12, Wojciech Puchar wrote:=0A=
>> default MAXBSIZE is 128kB. badly low for todays magnetic disks.=0A=
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>> i have it set to 2MB on all computers that have magnetic disks. Great=0A=
>> improvement with large files. especially when more than one are=0A=
>> read/wrote in parallel. And no problems experienced=0A=
>>=0A=
>> But for optimal performance MAXBSIZE should be transfered in few times=
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>> longer than average seek time. todays disk do 200-250MB/s so 2MB is=0A=
>> transfered below 10ms.=0A=
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>> 8-16MB seems like good choice. is there any reason not to set it that hi=
gh?=0A=
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>Old disk may not support it, especially USB 1.0/2.0 disks.=0A=
I also thought it was limited to MAXPHYS, but maybe I'm only thinking of th=
e NFS=0A=
specific case?=0A=
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rick=0A=



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