Increasing MAXPHYS

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> (from Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:17:33 -0600):

> code was actually taking advantage of the larger I/O's.  The  
> improvement really
> depends on the workload, of course, and I wouldn't expect it to be noticeable
> for most people unless they're running something like a media server.

I don't think this is limited to media servers, think about situations  
where you process a large amount of data seuqntially... (seuqntial  
access case in a big data-warehouse scenario or a 3D render farm which  
get's the huge amount of data from a shared resource ("how many  
render-clients can I support at the same time with my disk  
infrastructure"-scenario) or some of the bigtable/nosql stuff which  
seems to be more and more popular at some sites). There are enough  
situations where sequential file access is the key performance metric  
so that I wouldn't say that only media servers depend upon large  
sequential I/O's.

Bye,
Alexander.

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