Re: [osol-discuss] maxphys and sd_max_xfer_size

2006-03-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steven Sim wrote: > > Hello all; > > > > I have always wondered why Sun's default value for maxphys is only > > 128Kbyte. > ... > > The fact that we still have kernel tunables for things like this makes me > want to check myself into the looney bin. > > We

Re: [osol-discuss] maxphys and sd_max_xfer_size

2006-03-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Steven Sim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have always wondered why Sun's default value for maxphys is only 128Kbyte. > > In these days of EMC and other fibre related storages, it seemingly does > not make sense. > > This above is especially so when sd_max_xfer_size is set to 1 Mbyte by > default

Re: [osol-discuss] maxphys and sd_max_xfer_size

2006-03-20 Thread Roland Mainz
Steven Sim wrote: > I have always wondered why Sun's default value for maxphys is only 128Kbyte. > > In these days of EMC and other fibre related storages, it seemingly does > not make sense. > > This above is especially so when sd_max_xfer_size is set to 1 Mbyte by > default. > > Shouldn't the

Re: [osol-discuss] maxphys and sd_max_xfer_size

2006-03-19 Thread Eric Lowe
Steven Sim wrote: Hello all; I have always wondered why Sun's default value for maxphys is only 128Kbyte. ... The fact that we still have kernel tunables for things like this makes me want to check myself into the looney bin. We could up them now, but how do we know the values are optimal

[osol-discuss] maxphys and sd_max_xfer_size

2006-03-19 Thread Steven Sim
Hello all; I have always wondered why Sun's default value for maxphys is only 128Kbyte. In these days of EMC and other fibre related storages, it seemingly does not make sense. This above is especially so when sd_max_xfer_size is set to 1 Mbyte by default. Shouldn't the above values all be