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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Massimo Cetra <mcetra@navynet.it>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Production comparison between 2.4.27 and 2.6.8.1
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:28:10 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <412BF93A.6000902@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002401c489e4$d7903ec0$0600640a@guendalin>

Massimo Cetra wrote:
> Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Is this issue being analyzed ?
>>>Should we hope in an improvement sometime?
>>>Or I'll have to use 2.4 to have good performance ?
>>>
>>
>>You booted with elevator=deadline and things still didn't 
>>improve though, correct? If so, then the problem should be 
>>found and fixed.
> 
> 
> Yes, that's correct.
> Thanks.  I'll try next versions of kernel.
> I dont think 2.8.9-RC1 includes something regarding this issue.
> 

OK, can you try testing different values of
/sys/block/???/queue/read_ahead_kb

and

/sys/block/???/queue/nr_requests

You should set '???' for all disks involved.


First, try setting read_ahead_kb to 0, then 256.
If those values don't change anything, set nr_requests to 1024.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-25  2:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-21 17:25 Production comparison between 2.4.27 and 2.6.8.1 Massimo Cetra
2004-08-22  1:33 ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-22 15:43   ` Massimo Cetra
2004-08-22 16:54   ` Massimo Cetra
2004-08-23 11:46   ` Massimo Cetra
2004-08-24  2:05     ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-24 14:15       ` Massimo Cetra
2004-08-25  2:28         ` Nick Piggin [this message]
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2004-08-25  7:23 rwhron

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