maximum MAXBSIZE

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 2020-01-07 22:12, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> default MAXBSIZE is 128kB. badly low for todays magnetic disks.
> 
> i have it set to 2MB on all computers that have magnetic disks. Great 
> improvement with large files. especially when more than one are 
> read/wrote in parallel. And no problems experienced
> 
> But for optimal performance MAXBSIZE should be transfered in few times 
> longer than average seek time. todays disk do 200-250MB/s so 2MB is 
> transfered below 10ms.
> 
> 8-16MB seems like good choice. is there any reason not to set it that high?

Old disk may not support it, especially USB 1.0/2.0 disks.

--HPS