Re: Linux 2.6.29

Arjan van de Ven
2009-03-25T00:05:28Z

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)

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