Worky (!), On 10/31/06 12:11 PM, "Worky Workerson" <worky.workerson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Any recommendations on what to > look at to find a fix? One thing which I never mentioned was that I > am using ext3 mounted with noatime,data=writeback. You can try setting the max readahead like this: /sbin/blockdev --setra 16384 /dev/sd[a-z] It will set the max readahead to 16MB for whatever devices are in /dev/sd[a-z] for the booted machine. You'd need to put the line(s) in /etc/rc.d/rc.local to have the setting persist on reboot. - Luke
