From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Rudo Thomas <rudo@matfyz.cz>
Subject: Re: 2.6.14-ck1
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 19:47:44 +1100
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On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 07:34 pm, Rudo Thomas wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Con, it's still in /proc/sys/kernel in ck2, AFAICT.

Bah you're right. Thanks for the heads up. It will work the same there; it's 
just not meant to be there. Anyway I don't think you'll need to be fiddling 
with the default value generally.

Cheers,
Con
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