VFS sysctl tuning



After reading man tuning it said to change vfs.hirunningspace to a
larger value. What should I set it to?

My RAID controller, an Areca ARC-1220, has a 256MB cache and each disk
has 16MB of cache.

What other vfs.* sysctls can I change?


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