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From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
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Subject: Re: Dissapointing performance of ciss RAID 0+1 ?
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> You might be able to speed up the read by playing with the vfs.read_max 
> sysctl (try 16 or 32).

Wow! That makes a huge difference, thanks. Should this not be in 'man tuning' ?

-pete.