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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 12:43:47 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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Subject: Re: stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.20-ck3 / aa / rmap with contest]
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 03:33:27AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > what is this fadvise doing?
> 
> Invoking fadvise64().  Dropping the pagecache.
>  
> > yes, and anticipatory scheduler isn't going to fix it. furthmore with
> > IDE the max merging is 64k so you can see little of the whole picture.
> 
> 124k.  (Or is it 128k now?)

sure, sorry, the ide limit is 128k

Andrea
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