It worked without any tweaks on my side too, once I updated Fedora 31 to the latest kernel that is 5.5, I was using 5.3.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 6:27 PM Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
>>
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