Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response

["Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>]

On Donnerstag, 8. Februar 2007, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
> 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.

as was simply horrible for me. Much worse than cfq. But cfq is bad too... and 
deadline is not much better.

>
> > > 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?

reiserfs
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