Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271828AbTG2Qur (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:50:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271833AbTG2Qur (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:50:47 -0400 Received: from dm6-3.slc.aros.net ([66.219.221.3]:9892 "EHLO cyprus") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271828AbTG2Qup (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:50:45 -0400 Message-ID: <3F26A5E2.4070701@aros.net> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:50:42 -0600 From: Lou Langholtz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Voluspa , s.rivoir@gts.it Subject: Re: Disk performance degradation References: <20030729182138.76ff2d96.lista1@telia.com> In-Reply-To: <20030729182138.76ff2d96.lista1@telia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 756 Lines: 24 Voluspa wrote: >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 > 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 ;-) - 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/