Re: /proc/sys/vm/(max|min)-readahead effect????

From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Date: Fri Dec 07 2001 - 06:25:48 EST

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> > It works
>
> what results do you get?
>
> >> echo file_readahead:100 > /proc/ide/ide0/hda/settings

echo file_readahead:1024 > /proc/ide/ide0/hda/settings

...gave me full throughput to the disk (this disk can do ~25MB/s) while
reading 50 files concurrently :-)

-- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA

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