Re: [PATCH] Re: linux readahead setting?
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:04:29 +0100 (CET)
> Note that the interface to /proc/ide/hdX/settings still is buggy...
>
> i.e you should be able to do (in pages):
> echo "file_readahead:64" > /proc/ide/hdX/settings
> but the result will be a readahead of 128*1024 PAGES... and that
> is too much... (even 1024 PAGES is too much)
>
> (after patch, in kB)
> echo "file_readahead:256" > /proc/ide/hdX/settings
>
> It is likely that there are more settings in the ide subsystem that is
> has this fault... (Andre, I keep repeating myself...)
er...
I'm running Compaq RAID controllers... Not IDE...
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Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA
Computers are like air conditioners.
They stop working when you open Windows.
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