> I question the decision to use 124 kB as default read ahead maximum.
> The example cited was a FTP server serving 100 clients. With standard
> readahead it would give 12.8 MB readahead
[snip]
Ideally the readahead code would scale itself to use as much
memory is available, but no more and without putting pressure
on the working set too much.
I have some ideas on how to implement this and will start
testing them as soon as I have a nice test program for this.
regards,
Rik
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