On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 04:33:40PM -0700, Luke Lonergan wrote:
I¹m thinking about it, we¹re already using a fixed read-ahead of 16MB using blockdev on the stock Redhat 2.6.9 kernel, it would be nice to not have to set this so we may try it.
FWIW, I never saw much performance difference from doing that. Wu's patch, OTOH, gave a big boost.
Mike Stone