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Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:29:40 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Larry McVoy wrote:

> We're not sure if it is something we've done or just increased usage, but
> bkbits.net is getting hammered lately.  We see load averages in ~15-20
> range pretty regularly.  It's got some nasty characteristics from the
> point of view of server/VM system, tons of data and not really any good
> working sets.

There are a few things that could help here:

1) Andrew Morton's io scheduler patch (read-latency2), which is
   in the -rmap kernel

2) reducing the number of outstanding IO commands in the 3ware
   controller/driver, so akpm's io scheduler gets a chance to do
   its work

3) better readahead, if possible...

regards,

Rik
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