In message <5153a2fd.8020...@sneakertech.com>, you wrote: > >> Why exactly is the "bs=10240" is there? Wouldn't the default of 512 >> do just as well? > >Modern systems can read and write far more than 512 bytes per operation. >Sticking with 512 would work perfectly fine, but you'd be imposing an >unnecessary bottleneck and the copy would be a lot slower overall. >Whether 10K is optimal or not depends on the exact hardware you're >messing with (it looks pretty low to me, I'd suggest more like 1M).
I agree. And 10 kibibytes is probably quite a bit less than optimal. I have filed the following PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=177431 Thank you for your reply. Regards, rfg _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
