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dillon
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V 27
1999-12-13T17:34:45.000000Z
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V 582
    Add a readahead heuristic to the NFS server side code.  While the server
    cannot unilaterally pass data to a client it can reduce the physical
    disk transaction overhead by reading larger blocks.  This results in
    better pipelining of requests/responses over the network and an almost
    100% increase in cpu efficiency on the server.  On a 100BaseTX network
    NFS read performance increases from 8.5 MBytes/sec to 10 MB/sec (maxed
    out), and cpu efficiency increases from 72% idle to 80% idle on the server.

Reviewed by:	Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>

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