From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265200AbTLaQcF (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:32:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265205AbTLaQcF (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:32:05 -0500 Received: from mx1.it.wmich.edu ([141.218.1.89]:36809 "EHLO mx1.it.wmich.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265200AbTLaQcB (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:32:01 -0500 Message-ID: <3FF2F9FE.2000403@wmich.edu> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:31:58 -0500 From: Ed Sweetman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paolo Ornati CC: William Lee Irwin III , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.1-rc1 [resend] References: <200312311619.27812.ornati@lycos.it> <20031231152052.GR27687@holomorphy.com> <200312311645.23348.ornati@lycos.it> In-Reply-To: <200312311645.23348.ornati@lycos.it> 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 Paolo Ornati wrote: > On Wednesday 31 December 2003 16:20, you wrote: > >>On Wednesday 31 December 2003 16:06, you wrote: >> >>>>What io scheduler are you using? Or, could you post /var/log/dmesg? >> >>On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 04:19:27PM +0100, Paolo Ornati wrote: >> >>>"dmesg" and "config" attached. >> >>Could you try this with elevator=deadline? > > > ok, I have just tried... > I don't see any big difference. > Wasn't it mentioned in another thread related to a drop in ide performance that there is possibly some bug in the ide code that ends up requiring you to set the readahead on all your devices to see the max performance of any one? set all the readaheads of all your ide devices to 8192 You should see the best peformance doing this.