> In my experience enabling this feature can make a huge improvement in I/O
> intensive applications. Other options can help also, but I find dma to have
> the largest impact. I find linux almost unusable without it.
Oh, I should mention my BSD/OS data point is with one SCSI disk, soft
updates and tagged queuing enabled.
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