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 ) id 1HF6dk-000378-46 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:36:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l18AYigl016752; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:34:44 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l18ATxCJ010594 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:30:00 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 08 Feb 2007 10:29:59 -0000 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/htEQk8rjhcDxRmYaPYyULKr03Kgge9nSsU1HOiK z1OA== From: Michael Schreckenbauer To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:29:55 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200702062129.34057.grimlog@gmx.de> <200702071251.29387.grimlog@gmx.de> <200702072119.38681.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <200702072119.38681.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail 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 Message-Id: <200702081129.55304.grimlog@gmx.de> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 3 X-Archives-Salt: 26a796e5-2d07-410c-9bce-de3be32495d3 X-Archives-Hash: aeaae578981f4d0b5afd9fe1452351a8 Hi, Am Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007 21:19 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: > On Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Am Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007 12:35 schrieb Benno Schulenberg: > > > 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. > > it is a default setting I never touched? > Aside from 'IO_support' everything is default. same here. > Oh, and I tried different io-scheds without any success. anticipatory and deadline work better for me, but far from perfect. cfq is unusable. > > I believe there is a misunderstanding here. I am the one with the problem > > not Volker :) > we have both similar problems ;) Ah! Nice to hear I am not alone! *g* googling around, I found some people having a similar problem too, all of them are using xfs as I do (eg http://www.thisishull.net/showthread.php?t=219580). What's your fs? Mounting with nobarrier didn't work for me :( Regards, Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list