Hi! > > > The disk I/O while reading or writing the image is very slow. In fact, it > > > sounds like it's going one sector at a time. Can it be sped up? Do the > > > AIO changes accomplish that? > > > > Actually yes, it was sector-at-a-time, but it still was ~half of > > possible speed, so it should not be _that_ bad. > > Thing is, it's sometimes been acceptably quick, but recent kernels > have gone back and forth between really slow, to not quite so slow, > to OK, to really slow ... I do not think I have seen that myself (in recent history). More info would be needed :-(. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
