Re: Disk performance degradation

From: Lou Langholtz (ldl@aros.net)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 11:50:42 EST


Voluspa wrote:

>On 2003-07-29 12:00:06 Stefano Rivoir wrote:
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>>Is there something I'm missing?!
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>No, you are not ;-) You can reclaim some speed by doing a "hdparm -a
>512". See thread for explanation (it's the borked value for readahead):
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>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105830624016066&w=2
>
Anyone want to field why we aren't we just setting the default to 512 so
users don't need to adjust this? I'm sure there's a good reason... I'd
just like to know what it is ;-)

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