Arjan van de Ven wrote: > The first thing you should do is > > "echo 511 > /proc/sys/vm/max-readahead" > > as root. That doubled the performance for me (with the latest drivers I'm > working on) is max-readahead in /proc/sys/vm a feature for which i need the latest drivers? That's what i have: bdflush buffermem freepages heap-stack-gap kswapd max_map_count overcommit_memory page-cluster pagecache pagetable_cache Greeting, Joerg