On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 10:43:31AM +0200, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> > 
> > It also depends a lot on the drive you're using and the blocksize you're
> > using to access the drive.  For instance, if you're hitting the raw device
> > /dev/rsd0c using `dd' with a block size of 64k vs 4k or 1k, you'll see
> >
> Note here that you probably get better performance with 60k than 64k.
> This is because max transfer size is set to 63k on VAX. 64k will
> force a request to be split into one big and one small, while a smaller
> transfer (56k for example) will result only in big transfers.

This implies BTW that if you're using FFS on your VAX you should set
"maxcontig" (with tunefs or at filesystem creation time) to 7.

Incidentally, has anyone tried LFS on NetBSD/vax?

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