From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272361AbTHEVfa (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 17:35:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272441AbTHEVfa (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 17:35:30 -0400 Received: from www.erfrakon.de ([193.197.159.57]:2318 "EHLO www.erfrakon.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272361AbTHEVfT (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 17:35:19 -0400 From: Martin Konold Organization: erfrakon To: Rahul Karnik Subject: Re: Interactive Usage of 2.6.0.test1 worse than 2.4.21 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 23:29:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/kroupware-1.0.0 References: <200308050704.22684.martin.konold@erfrakon.de> <200308051452.02417.bernd-schubert@web.de> <3F2FB307.2000901@genebrew.com> In-Reply-To: <3F2FB307.2000901@genebrew.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200308052329.40256.martin.konold@erfrakon.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Dienstag, 5. August 2003 15:37 schrieb Rahul Karnik: Hi, > If disk is involved, your problem might simply be the incorrect > readahead value. Try "hdparm -a 512". This improved the situation noticeably while still beeing slower than 2.4.21. I will test more recent kernels later tonight. Regards, -- martin Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold e r f r a k o n Erlewein, Frank, Konold & Partner - Beratende Ingenieure und Physiker Nobelstrasse 15, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany fon: 0711 67400963, fax: 0711 67400959 email: martin.konold@erfrakon.de