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gnazio

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Increase File Buffer Size
« on: April 09, 2012, 06:30:27 PM »
What about increasing the file buffer size limit?
The limit has been the same in about 10 years of development (considering emule too), and in the meanwhile PC's capacities (RAM/HD cache/...) are vastly improved.
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Re: Increase File Buffer Size
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2012, 03:02:23 PM »
I believe that's the amount held in ram before committing to disk.

Is tweaking that a good idea? Linux/BSD already has their own disk write buffering anyway.

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Re: Increase File Buffer Size
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2012, 04:18:07 PM »
It's hard to tweak, since I'm sure you won't notice any different behavior anyway.
And if you start with it, you need options to not waste4 memory on the embedded platforms and all that. I don't think it's worth the effort.
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Re: Increase File Buffer Size
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2012, 01:51:31 PM »
It helps preserving disk health, with modern connections you can fill a 1.5MB buffer in less than a second and ram isn't a problem anymore. You can keep the default and let power users customize it.
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Re: Increase File Buffer Size
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2012, 03:30:47 PM »
Quote from: darkbasic on May 23, 2012, 01:51:31 PM
ram isn't a problem anymore.
Good to hear. Le me say I often run aMule on embedded mipsel, and in that case RAM is a problem.  NAS users perhaps think the same.
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Re: Increase File Buffer Size
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2012, 06:58:45 PM »
As I said you can keep the actual value as default but let peoples increase the buffer.
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