Subject: Re: Changing default priocscan_burst[] defaults
To: None <juan@xtrarom.org>
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/02/2007 12:17:16
> Hi, some time ago (like 2 years ago more or less), I made
> some benchmarks to test performance withall disk I/O schedulers
> on NetBSD. Clearly the winner was priocscan, but tunning the values
> on it made it go faster in some cases (aprox 10MB/s).
> 
> You can see the results here:
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2005/10/11/0002.html
> 
> My question is: can we change the default values now and remove the XXX
> comment now that we have better values?
> 
> Note: Mindaugas R. agrees that they should be the default.
> 
> -- 
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> Juan RP's blog - NetBSD/pkgsrc news in Spanish

- have you measured latencies?

- is there any rational of the numbers?
  otherwise, it's still "arbitrary numbers which seems to work fine on
  a particular configuration."

YAMAMOTO Takashi