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From: Daniel Cheng <gmane@sdiz.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: Linux disk performance.
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:15:39 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <emdcar$7a0$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <652016d30612202203h16331f96o2147872db3cb2d43@mail.gmail.com>

Manish Regmi wrote:
[...]
>>
>> If you upgrade to a newer kernel you can try other i/o scheduler
>> options, default cfq or even deadline might be helpful.
> 
> I tried all disk schedulers but all had timing bumps. :(
> 

Did you try to disable the on disk write cache?

man hdparm(8)

   -W     Disable/enable the IDE drive´s write-caching
          feature


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-21  7:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-18  4:07 Linux disk performance Manish Regmi
2006-12-18  8:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-18 12:39   ` Manish Regmi
2006-12-18 12:54     ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-18 13:07     ` Erik Mouw
2006-12-19  6:22       ` Manish Regmi
2006-12-19  6:38         ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-19 12:18           ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-20 11:17           ` Manish Regmi
2006-12-22  0:14             ` Bhanu Kalyan Chetlapalli
2006-12-22  5:30               ` Manish Regmi
2006-12-22  5:39                 ` Bhanu Kalyan Chetlapalli
2006-12-22  5:56                   ` Manish Regmi
2006-12-20 22:29     ` Bill Davidsen
2006-12-21  6:03       ` Manish Regmi
2006-12-21  7:15         ` Daniel Cheng [this message]
2006-12-21 13:22         ` Erik Mouw
2006-12-22  5:39           ` Manish Regmi
2006-12-27 15:50       ` Phillip Susi
2007-01-01  1:59         ` Bill Davidsen

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