From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272761AbTG3FF6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:05:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272762AbTG3FF6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:05:58 -0400 Received: from outmail.cc.huji.ac.il ([132.64.1.21]:24462 "EHLO mail3.cc.huji.ac.il") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272761AbTG3FF4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:05:56 -0400 Message-ID: <3F2746F5.4010702@mscc.huji.ac.il> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 07:17:57 +0300 From: Voicu Liviu Organization: Hebrew University of Jerusalem User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030713 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, he MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lou Langholtz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Voluspa , s.rivoir@gts.it Subject: Re: Disk performance degradation References: <20030729182138.76ff2d96.lista1@telia.com> <3F26A5E2.4070701@aros.net> In-Reply-To: <3F26A5E2.4070701@aros.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.2(snapshot 20021217) (pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il) X-AntiVirus: checked by Vexira MailArmor (version: 2.0.1.14; VAE: 6.20.0.1; VDF: 6.20.0.26; host: mail3.cc.huji.ac.il) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 ;-) > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ Good Idea, what could be the reason? -- Voicu Liviu Rothberg International School Computation center, Mount Scopus Hebrew University of Jerusalem Tel: 972(2)-5881253 E-mail: pacman@mscc.huji.ac.il Operating System: Linux Gentoo1.4 ( www.gentoo.org ) Click here to see my GPG signature: http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?template=netensearch%2Cnetennomatch%2Cnetenerror&search=pacman%40mscc.huji.ac.il&op=vindex&fingerprint=on&submit=Get+List