Re: maxphys and block sizes on slices

2008-02-24 Thread Bruce Evans
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Chris wrote: I got a server that is primarily handling large files not massive files but files that are 15meg+ in size and very few smaller files. So I decided to use the following options in newfs. -f 4096 -b 32768 Eventually I realised this was a bad decision especially

Re: Re[2]: FBSD 1GBit router?

2008-02-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 25/02/2008, Bc. Radek Krejca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > ZB> - upgrade at least to 6.3. upgrading to 7.0 might also be better, > depending > ZB> on hardware choices > ZB> - ensure your ethernet cards are on fast enough busses. 'em' (Intel > Ether > ZB> Express 1000) flavor ports

maxphys and block sizes on slices

2008-02-24 Thread Chris
Hi. I got a server that is primarily handling large files not massive files but files that are 15meg+ in size and very few smaller files. So I decided to use the following options in newfs. -f 4096 -b 32768 Eventually I realised this was a bad decision especially when I noticed vfs.bufdefragcnt

Re[2]: FBSD 1GBit router?

2008-02-24 Thread Bc. Radek Krejca
Hi, ZB> - upgrade at least to 6.3. upgrading to 7.0 might also be better, depending ZB> on hardware choices ZB> - ensure your ethernet cards are on fast enough busses. 'em' (Intel Ether ZB> Express 1000) flavor ports are my personal favorite ZB> - enable polling (this will make a _huge_ differen