Re: /proc/sys/vm/(max|min)-readahead effect????

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:

> hi all
> 
> I've just upgraded to 2.4.16 to get /proc/sys/vm/(max|min)-readahead
> available. I've got this idea...
> 
> If lots of files (some hundered) are read simultaously, I waste all the
> i/o time in seeks. However, if I increase the readahead, it'll read more
> data at a time, and end up with seeking a lot less.
> 
> The harddrive I'm testing this with, is a cheap 20G IDE drive. It can give
> me a peak thoughput of about 28 MB/s (reading).
> When running 10 simultanous dd jobs ('dd if=filenr of=/dev/null bs=4m'), I
> peaks at some 8,5 MB/s no matter what I set the min/max readahead to!!
> 
> Is this correct?

Do you also have VM pressure going on or do you have lots of free memory ?