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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 21:01:20 -0200 (BRST)
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] Error reading multiple large files
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Roy,

I suspect this is a use-once effect.

Could you please try http://surriel.com/patches/2.4/2.4.17-pre8-2ndchance
? 

Thanks

On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I've sent this before, but as far as I can see, nothing's changed.
> 
> I'm having problems reading multiple large files at once. Reading 100 1GB
> files at once.
> 
> What happens is, when the buffer cache gets filled up, it all stalls, and
> transfer speed drops from 40-50 MB/s to a mere 2MB/s.


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