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From: Voicu Liviu <pacman@mscc.huji.ac.il>
To: Lou Langholtz <ldl@aros.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Voluspa <lista1@telia.com>,
	s.rivoir@gts.it
Subject: Re: Disk performance degradation
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 07:17:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F2746F5.4010702@mscc.huji.ac.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F26A5E2.4070701@aros.net>

Lou Langholtz wrote:
> Voluspa wrote:
> 
>> On 2003-07-29 12:00:06 Stefano Rivoir wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Is there something I'm missing?!
>>>   
>>
>>
>> No, you are not ;-) You can reclaim some speed by doing a "hdparm -a
>> 512". See thread for explanation (it's the borked value for readahead):
>>
>> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105830624016066&w=2
>>
> Anyone want to field why we aren't we just setting the default to 512 so 
> users don't need to adjust this? I'm sure there's a good reason... I'd 
> just like to know what it is ;-)
> 
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Good Idea, what could be the reason?

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-30  5:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-29 16:21 Disk performance degradation Voluspa
2003-07-29 16:50 ` Lou Langholtz
2003-07-30  4:17   ` Voicu Liviu [this message]
2003-07-30 21:02   ` Mike Dresser
2003-07-31  8:35     ` Måns Rullgård
2003-07-31 14:00       ` Mike Dresser
2003-07-31 21:15       ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-31 22:17         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-07-30  8:50 ` Stefano Rivoir
2003-07-30 10:55   ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-30 16:06     ` Stefano Rivoir
2003-07-30 18:44       ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-31  0:21         ` Rahul Karnik
2003-07-31  6:59         ` Stefano Rivoir
2003-07-31  7:16           ` Andrew Morton
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2003-07-30 11:43 Frederick, Fabian
2003-07-29 12:00 Stefano Rivoir

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