From: Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Current Grub2 & problem with /boot on different drive
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:22:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB78C3D.9080202@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090921141652.GL13423@riva.ucam.org>
Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:00:13PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>
>> As a workaround for time being you can use one or more of the following:
>> 1) Increase cache size. Can this be done in 1.97?
>> Change include/grub/disk.h and replace
>> #define GRUB_DISK_CACHE_NUM 1021
>> with a bigger number
>>
>
> I'm a little baffled. Why does the disk cache size make a difference
> here? He has four disks - I'd have thought that 1021 would be plenty.
>
>
1021 is the number of cached 4KiB blocks and is used in hash
calculations. If he has a lot of cache misses it will result in long
boot times
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-21 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-09-20 16:32 ` Current Grub2 & problem with /boot on different drive Dean Loros
2009-09-20 20:00 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-09-21 14:16 ` Colin Watson
2009-09-21 14:22 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2009-09-21 14:58 ` Colin Watson
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2009-09-21 14:10 ` Dean Loros
2009-09-21 14:23 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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2009-09-22 3:17 ` Dean Loros
2009-09-22 7:56 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-09-25 4:45 Dean Loros
2009-09-25 6:31 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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2009-09-25 14:07 ` Dean Loros
2009-09-25 14:21 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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2009-09-27 14:53 Dean Loros
2009-09-27 14:56 ` Felix Zielcke
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2009-09-27 23:35 ` Dean Loros
2009-09-28 7:27 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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2009-09-28 13:51 ` Dean Loros
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