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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: Poor performance during disk writes
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:

> You need to run
> 	elvtune -b N /dev/hdXX
> where N=0 is "disable", N=1 is minimum read latency, N=6 is
> a reasonable setting.

I'm curious, why was max_bomb_segments dropped the last time
it was in the tree ? I recall it happening, but the reason
escapes me.

Dave.

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| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

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