From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-59644-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1HElAK-00087S-3X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:40:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l17BdPIa020085; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:39:25 GMT Received: from smtp19.wxs.nl (smtp19.wxs.nl [195.121.247.10]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l17BZNSb015546 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:35:23 GMT Received: from graskamp (ip51cfa1ef.direct-adsl.nl [81.207.161.239]) by smtp19.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.15 (built Nov 14 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JD300IH4C6YMP@smtp19.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:35:22 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:35:09 +0100 From: Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response In-reply-to: <200702070553.37173.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <200702071235.09372.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200702062129.34057.grimlog@gmx.de> <200702070049.56167.nbensa@gmx.net> <200702070553.37173.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Archives-Salt: fc5ed55e-efca-472e-8b22-38049290ea41 X-Archives-Hash: 8fbdbfc0267507274b9afff52831ff97 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list