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tedunangst
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A year of funded FreeBSD development
Some huge customer chunked their data into 5GB pieces so now there's a "if size == 5GB" in the cache code.
cperciva
51 days ago
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Maybe, but I don't think that would explain 8 GB also being fast while 6 GB is slow?
MobiusHorizons
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Yeah, I found that pretty unintuitive when I read it. How did you find 8GB worked? Trial and error?
0x457
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Customer started using 8GB chunks /s
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