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Date:      Tue, 31 Mar 1998 03:20:46 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Cc:        FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Corruption in security check output
Message-ID:  <199803310820.DAA01411@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <19980331155832.03374@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Mar 31, 98 03:58:32 pm"

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Greg Lehey said:
> On Tue, 31 March 1998 at  1:22:43 -0500, John S. Dyson wrote:
> >> On Tue, 31 March 1998 at  0:47:04 -0500, John S. Dyson wrote:
> >>
> >> vfs.ioopt's a new one for me.  What is it?  In any case, I haven't
> >> changed anything for months.
> >
> > Zero-copy reads.
> 
> Where do you set it?  It looks like a sysctl variable, but I can't see
> anything in the man pages, and sysctl doesn't seem to recognize it
> either.
> 
It is by default disabled for now, but earlier versions of -current
kernels had it (the sysctl) enabled.  I disabled the sysctl (except with
a config option) so that people would not use it by mistake.

When it is fully working, iozone should give >1G/sec.  It actually
overflows iozone on my machine now.  There are still some minor problems,
which should be fixed soon.


-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.

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