Subject: Re: R140 w/8 MB and multiuser
To: Ian Fry <Ian.Fry@sophos.com>
From: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm26
Date: 07/02/2001 12:33:08
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Ian Fry wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 08:21:03PM +0100, Ben Harris wrote:
> Does this actually alter the buffer sizes used by the kernel when reading, or
> just maximum amount of data it will try to read at once (for NFS, obviously)?

It just affects the size of read and write requests over NFS.  For the
most part, buffering in the kernel should be in page-sized chunks these
days, which is less than wonderful for us.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>