Re: Linux 2.6.29

Stephen Clark
2009-03-25T18:41:46Z

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:03:53 -0700
> Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
>
>> I remember early in the 2.6.x days there was a lot of focus on making
>> interactive performance good, and for a long time it was. But this
>> I/O problem has been around for a *long* time now... What happened?
>> Do not many people run into this daily? Do all the filesystem
>> hackers run with special mount options to mitigate the problem?
>>
>
> the people that care use my kernel patch on ext3 ;-)
> (or the userland equivalent tweak in /etc/rc.local)
>
>
>
Ok, I bite what is the userland tweak?

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