<samba:parameter name="aio write size" context="S" type="integer" xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc"> <description> <para>If Samba has been built with asynchronous I/O support and this integer parameter is set to non-zero value, Samba will write to file asynchronously when size of request is bigger than this value. Note that it happens only for non-chained and non-chaining reads and when not using write cache.</para> <para>Current implementation of asynchronous I/O in Samba 3.0 does support only up to 10 outstanding asynchronous requests, read and write combined.</para> <related>write cache size</related> <related>aio read size</related> </description> <value type="default">0</value> <value type="example">16384<comment> Use asynchronous I/O for writes bigger than 16KB request size</comment></value> </samba:parameter>