henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (03/28/84)
The mods to the RM driver to allow dynamic modification of the timing
parameters work, and the effect is quite striking. The default settings
of the search/commit times are 2/6. With a setting of 5/10, a simple
benchmark (reading a huge file a block at a time) runs twice as fast!
I've left things set at 5/10, and added an srm command to /etc/rc to
keep them that way. This may not actually be optimum, but it's a lot
better than 2/6. More tuning to follow.
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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