Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271822AbTG2QUZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:20:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270255AbTG2QUZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:20:25 -0400 Received: from h234n2fls24o900.bredband.comhem.se ([217.208.132.234]:42462 "EHLO oden.fish.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271895AbTG2QUI (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:20:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:21:38 +0200 From: Voluspa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: s.rivoir@gts.it Subject: Re: Disk performance degradation Message-Id: <20030729182138.76ff2d96.lista1@telia.com> Organization: The Foggy One X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 559 Lines: 17 On 2003-07-29 12:00:06 Stefano Rivoir wrote: > Is there something I'm missing?! 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): http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105830624016066&w=2 Mvh Mats Johannnesson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/