On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:43, Vic <vic.lix10@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Also, with my current settings, if I use DD on my ramdisk I get > "blk_rq_cur_sectors" count to be always 8, which confuses my drive b'se I > want to only handle 512 requests at a time. > Simple command to test the disk sing DD "sudo dd if=/dev/urandom > of=/dev/sbd0 bs=512 count=1" > with bs=512 I was hoping to see only the 512 byte request read ahead setting, maybe? -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies