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On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 12:48:02PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > > > I can too, if I don't try to burn at x16. But the machine is unusable
> > > > otherwise. A ls from a remote terminal takes seconds.
> > >
> > > on 1.5.2?
> >
> > Yes, on 1.5.2, and even 1.5.3.
> > Note that I have a larger buffer cache than default, this may make things
> > worse.
> 
> possibly. i use up to 4-8MB as larger doesn't make real speedup on average
> work.

I use 20M or larger. With soft updates it makes a real difference when  working
on trees with lots of files. It also makes a difference for a busy mail server.

But with 20M, the I/O queue can become large enouth to require more than a
seconds to drain, so under some workload (e.g. writing a mailbox much
larger than 20M) it has some annoying behavior

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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