Re: Optimum Block Size for Disk Reads

[ghutchinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gord Hutchinson)]

On Wed, 12 Aug 1998 17:49:52 -0400, Mark Lazarus <mlazarus@ttec.com> wrote:

>Gord,
>
>At 10:50 AM 8/11/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>On the CISC box, we used to determine the number of records which would fit
>>into a 32k buffer and use this in an OVRDBF to optimize the number of
>>records read per physical I/O.  The buffer size changed on the RISC boxes
>>but I can't find the note I made on the new size.  Would someone refresh my
>>memory please?
>
> 128K.
>
> -mark
>
Thanks Mark.  For some reason I thought it was higher but a search through
some old messages in comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc shows this to be the
consensus.  Faulty memory again I guess.

Gord

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Gord Hutchinson
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905-212-6330
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