From: Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:35:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702071235.09372.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702070553.37173.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> hdparm /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
> multcount = 16 (on)
> IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
> unmaskirq = 1 (on)
> using_dma = 1 (on)
> keepsettings = 0 (off)
> readonly = 0 (off)
> readahead = 256 (on)
> geometry = 16383/255/63, sectors = 234493056, start = 0
Maybe set readahead to a smaller value? Something like 8 or 16?
At least that's what http://linuxgazette.net/issue79/punk.html
advises. If you have specific reasons for the higher value, then
please elaborate.
Benno
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-06 20:29 [gentoo-user] Very bad system response Michael Schreckenbauer
[not found] ` <34949.82.225.10.135.1170796044.squirrel@mail.rofes.fr>
2007-02-06 22:26 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-02-06 22:44 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2007-02-07 0:15 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-02-07 3:49 ` Norberto Bensa
2007-02-07 4:53 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-02-07 11:35 ` Benno Schulenberg [this message]
2007-02-07 11:51 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2007-02-07 20:19 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-02-08 10:29 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2007-02-09 13:46 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-02-07 9:51 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2007-02-06 22:29 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2007-02-23 9:15 ` Robert Szentmihalyi
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