Might I suggest a change in the name of this thread or starting a new one.
The subject problem was resolved sometime ago and this is just bad publicity.
Almost scare me off till I read the user with the problem was now happy.
Bill Barnes
>===== Original Message From Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> =====
>> The statement:
>>
>> > > BSD file systems turn off prefetch only if prefetched blocks remain
>> > > unused.
>>
>> is false for FreeBSD afaik.
>>
>> FreeBSD tracks how often sequential access happens and will retry it
>> as the file's access trend indicates. It can flip back and forth from
>> readahead and non-readahead.
>
>Yes, read my later posting describing the actual algorithm. Let me know
>if it is wrong.
>
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