Re: Poor performance during disk writes

Jens Axboe
2001-12-21T16:53:50Z

On Thu, Dec 20 2001, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > You need to run
> > elvtune -b N /dev/hdXX
> > where N=0 is "disable", N=1 is minimum read latency, N=6 is
> > a reasonable setting.
>
> I'm curious, why was max_bomb_segments dropped the last time
> it was in the tree ? I recall it happening, but the reason
> escapes me.

Fooled me too the first time, read Andrew's patch though. It isn't
related at all.

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Jens Axboe