disk I/O, VFS hirunningspace

[Jerry Toung]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Gary Jennejohn
<gljennjohn at googlemail.com>wrote:

>
>
> Rather than commenting out the code try setting the sysctl
> vfs.hirunningspace to various powers-of-two.  Default seems to be
> 1MB.  I just changed it on the command line as a test to 2MB.
>
> You can do this in /etc/sysctl.conf.
>
>
thank you all, that did it. The settings that Matt recommended are giving
the same numbers
I had with the code commented out. I was concerned that the lock or msleep
may be a problem.

Jerry