Re: 2.4.18pre4aa1

Rik van Riel
2002-01-25T04:57:45Z

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 rwhron@earthlink.net wrote:

> > workloads, I'm not sure I want to make the system more
> > unfair just to better accomodate dbench ;)
>
> I'm wondering if rmap is a little too aggressive on
> read-ahead, and if that has a negative impact on
> a complex workload.

I haven't changed the readahead code one bit compared
to 2.4 mainline, but I'm wondering the same.

Fixing readahead window sizing has been on my TODO list
for quite a while already.

regards,

Rik
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