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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB mass storage device slow in Gentoo, fast in  Windows...? [SOLVED]
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:39:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <358eca8f1001050339p7af8806du6b30fc5755ce2db4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201001051040.25907.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>

2010/1/5 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>:
> On Tuesday 05 January 2010 10:15:00 Stroller wrote:
>> On 5 Jan 2010, at 06:21, Mick wrote:
>> >> ...
>> >> Solved. The problem was CFQ I/O scheduler. It was several times slower
>> >> than the others, for whatever reason.
>> >> ...
>> >
>> > Hmmm ... reading at the help files I thought that CFQ was the
>> > default/best option for a desktop.  Is there such a thing as a best fit
>> > here?
>>
>> I had this notion that it was the worst option for everything, unless your
>>  computer has 96+ CPUs.
>
> I had this notion that the author of the help files was talking through a hole
> in his butt and just expressing his own views.

Ha, ha!

What does experience show to be a best option for a desktop that has:

a) Single CPU?
b) Dual core?
c) Quad core?

-- 
Regards,
Mick



  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-05 11:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-05  5:26 [gentoo-user] Re: USB mass storage device slow in Gentoo, fast in Windows...? [SOLVED] Paul Hartman
2010-01-05  6:21 ` Mick
2010-01-05  8:15   ` Stroller
2010-01-05  8:40     ` Alan McKinnon
2010-01-05 11:39       ` Mick [this message]
2010-01-05 12:38         ` Szénási István
2010-01-05 20:34           ` James Ausmus
2010-01-06  6:12             ` Szénási István
2010-01-05 19:31         ` Stroller

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