Hi, Am Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007 21:19 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: > On Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > > 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. > > it is a default setting I never touched? > Aside from 'IO_support' everything is default.
same here. > Oh, and I tried different io-scheds without any success. anticipatory and deadline work better for me, but far from perfect. cfq is unusable. > > I believe there is a misunderstanding here. I am the one with the problem > > not Volker :) > we have both similar problems ;) Ah! Nice to hear I am not alone! *g* googling around, I found some people having a similar problem too, all of them are using xfs as I do (eg http://www.thisishull.net/showthread.php?t=219580). What's your fs? Mounting with nobarrier didn't work for me :( Regards, Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
