Re: Disk performance degradation

From: Voicu Liviu (pacman@mscc.huji.ac.il)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 23:17:57 EST

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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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