Subject: Re: MAXPHYS
To: None <wojtek@wojtek.from.pl>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/04/2001 14:27:19
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:57:26PM +0100, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
> could it be changed to /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/include/param.h
> to larger value (like 256KB or 1MB)
> 
> my drive can do 27MB/s with 10ms seek - it could transfer 270kB in one
> seek time - so 64kB is too small to make clustering work efficiently.

I'm not sure this is a great idea. You may suffer from other problems,
especially I/O latency. You'll also use more memory.
Some drivers will also break (pciide should work but I've never checked - 
siop will definitively not work without changes).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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