On 2020-04-01 20:50, Roger Heflin wrote: > the "cache" is in memory. My original reason for setting it was I did > usbstick and usb-sd cards, and both of those are really slow, and i > also did not have a lot of ram in those laptops such that an > additional 20% of memory going for writecache also made the system > page horribly. > > Ed: How much ram does your laptop have? At lot of should go away if > you have extra ram and can afford for 20% of the ram to be used as > writecache and still have enough ram such that you still aren't having > to page/swap. The HDD referenced below came from a laptop. The tower system I ran the transfers on, without any issues or kernel tweeks, has 8GB. > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 2:50 AM Sreyan Chakravarty <sreyan32@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> No, you are missing the point. The kernel needs to be on HDD, or rather the cache used by the kernel needs to be on the HDD. >> >> Anyways, can you tell me if Fedora 31 uses the BFQ scheduler by default now ? >> >> Because thats what I am reading here: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-Switching-To-BFQ >> >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 12:40 PM Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 2020-04-01 13:58, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: >>>> Try : >>>> USB -> HDD. >>>> >>> Well, as I said, the HDD is "an old laptop HDD in a USB 2.0 enclosure". >>> >>> So, I would be doing USB-Flash--->USB HDD. >>> >>> Is that what you would be interested in? >>> >>> -- >>> The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Sreyan Chakravarty >> -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx