rwhron@earthlink.net wrote:

>>If you have time, would you please try testing as-iosched.c from
>>test5 in a later kernel (it won't go into test8-mm1 though).
>>
>
>copying drivers/block/as-iosched.c from 2.6.0-test5 to test8
>looks like it fixes the regression.  Here are the results so far.
>

Could you please try the following patch against 2.6.0-test8.
Thanks. I'll have to come up with something more comprehensive
because this destroys find | xargs grep during other IO. It
looks like this might be the cause of a lot of AS's database
problems though.

I'm working on something...