It worked without any tweaks on my side too, once I updated Fedora 31 to the latest kernel that is 5.5, I was using 5.3.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 6:27 PM Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote: > On 2020-04-01 20:50, Roger Heflin wrote: > > the "cache" is in memory. My original reason for setting it was I did > > usbstick and usb-sd cards, and both of those are really slow, and i > > also did not have a lot of ram in those laptops such that an > > additional 20% of memory going for writecache also made the system > > page horribly. > > > > Ed: How much ram does your laptop have? At lot of should go away if > > you have extra ram and can afford for 20% of the ram to be used as > > writecache and still have enough ram such that you still aren't having > > to page/swap. > > The HDD referenced below came from a laptop. > > The tower system I ran the transfers on, without any issues or kernel > tweeks, has 8GB. > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 2:50 AM Sreyan Chakravarty <sreya...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> No, you are missing the point. The kernel needs to be on HDD, or rather > the cache used by the kernel needs to be on the HDD. > >> > >> Anyways, can you tell me if Fedora 31 uses the BFQ scheduler by default > now ? > >> > >> Because thats what I am reading here: > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-Switching-To-BFQ > >> > >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 12:40 PM Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> > wrote: > >>> On 2020-04-01 13:58, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > >>>> Try : > >>>> USB -> HDD. > >>>> > >>> Well, as I said, the HDD is "an old laptop HDD in a USB 2.0 enclosure". > >>> > >>> So, I would be doing USB-Flash--->USB HDD. > >>> > >>> Is that what you would be interested in? > >>> > >>> -- > >>> The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Regards, > >> Sreyan Chakravarty > >> > > -- > The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty
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