Hi, Am Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007 12:35 schrieb Benno Schulenberg: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > hdparm /dev/hda > > > > /dev/hda: > > multcount = 16 (on) > > IO_support = 1 (32-bit) > > unmaskirq = 1 (on) > > using_dma = 1 (on) > > keepsettings = 0 (off) > > readonly = 0 (off) > > readahead = 256 (on) > > geometry = 16383/255/63, sectors = 234493056, start = 0 > > Maybe set readahead to a smaller value? Something like 8 or 16? > > At least that's what http://linuxgazette.net/issue79/punk.html > advises. If you have specific reasons for the higher value, then > please elaborate.
I believe there is a misunderstanding here. I am the one with the problem not Volker :) Unfortunately I'm not in front of the affected machine right now, but I'm quite shure I use the defaults as I never tuned the discs with hdparm > Benno Thanks, Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
