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Date:      Sun, 18 Jun 1995 20:34:08 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert)
To:        peter@haywire.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How does the disk IO clustering work?
Message-ID:  <199506181834.UAA14935@blaise.ibp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.91.950610135321.14840F-100000@haywire.DIALix.COM> from "Peter Wemm" at Jun 19, 95 02:22:59 am

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> jhome # tunefs -p /dev/rsd0h
> tunefs: maximum contiguous block count: (-a)               1

You can push this to 8

> tunefs: rotational delay between contiguous blocks: (-d)   4 ms

You should lower this to 0.

> tunefs: maximum blocks per file in a cylinder group: (-e)  1024
> tunefs: minimum percentage of free space: (-m)             10%

Now the default is 8%.

There is another parameter that can be set only at newfs
time : -n 1

-- 
Ollivier ROBERT     -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-     roberto@FreeBSD.ORG
FreeBSD keltia 2.0-BUILT-19950503 #3: Wed May  3 19:53:04 MET DST 1995



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