FreeBSD IO Performance (was Re: Quality of FreeBSD)

[Mark Kirkwood]

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.
>