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by klabb3 1118 days ago
That’s great to hear! Thanks for the data point, hope this is more representative. I’ve encountered Windows (10) instances in the wild with auto-tuning turned off (64k max).

> I never really understood why user-focused distros like to keep the max so limited when there are plenty of resources.

Yeah, agreed. That is way too conservative, especially for an issue which most people can’t easily triage.

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You can definitely turn it off in Windows, should you want to for some reason, but scaling windows up to 1G are definitely the default since Windows 2000 https://web.archive.org/web/20130613080612/http://www.micros...