disk I/O, VFS hirunningspace

[Ivan Voras]

On 07/14/10 18:27, Jerry Toung wrote:
> 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

Any objections to raising the defaults to 8 MB / 1 MB in HEAD?