On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:15:41PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Hmm - looks like I missed that thread, never mind - repeatability of > findings is sound scientific principle :-) > > With respect to changing the default for vfs.read_max - makes sense to > me, but it would be interesting to know if anyone has a system that > performs *worse* with it set to 16. > > regards > > Mark > > Chris wrote: > >Its been mentioned before and most experience the same as you by > >setting it to 16 a dramatic improvement in the sequential read, I > >currently run all my 5.x servers like this with no issues as a result. > > I am curious if the default will ever be changed.
on my notebook: IBM TP 600x 5.4-RELEASE-p4 ad0: 38154MB <IC25N040ATCS04-0/CA4OA71A> [77520/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 APM enable (but same effect with disable APM) AAC unfortunatelly not supported :( anything above vfs.read_max=1 produce very annoying little sound (i can hear disk heads) when playing movies.. my 2 cents -- Bohdan 'Nexus' Horst _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
