Re: [ck] 2.6.14-ck1

From: Con Kolivas
Date: Wed Nov 02 2005 - 17:48:54 EST


On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 07:38 am, Predrag Ivanovic wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 21:18:09 +1000
> Con Kolivas wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > Changes:
> >
> > Added:
> > +adaptive-readahead-4.patch
> > We Fengguang's adaptive readahead patch. Please test and report
> > experiences - Wu has been cc'ed on this email, please keep him cc'ed
> > for reports.
>
> Con,any recommended value for /proc/sys/kernel/readahead_ratio,
> or is it automagicly set?It's value is 0 ATM.

Yes. First it's supposed to be in /proc/sys/vm (my fault on the merge), and it
should be set to about 50. All this is corrected in 2.6.14-ck2 which has the
new readahead code, the tunable in the correct location, and the default set
to 50.

> Great work with ck.BTW :-)

Thanks!

Cheers,
Con
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