Re: HIGHMEM4G config for 1GB RAM on desktop?

[Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>]

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <41336CB1.6030105@techsource.com>,
> Timothy Miller  <miller@techsource.com> wrote:
> 
>>Timothy Miller wrote:
>>
>>>Hey, that rings a bell.  I have a 3ware 7000-2 controller with two 
>>>WD1200JB drives in RAID1.  I find that if I dd from the disk, I get 
>>>exactly the read throughput that is the max for the drives (47MB/sec). 
>>>However, if I do a WRITE test, the performance is miserable.
>>>
>>>I have been going back and forth with 3ware for months, and what's odd 
>>>is that my drives with my controller in any machine other than the 
>>>primary box get great write throughput, BUT on my main box with 1G of 
>>>RAM, I get MISERABLE write throughput.  When I should be getting 
>>>36MB/sec or faster, I get 8 to 12 MB/sec.
>>>
>>>Now, I have tried limiting the memory with a mem= boot option, but that 
>>>doesn't change the performance any.
>>
>>Scratch all this.  Even if I physically remove half the memory, I STILL 
>>get the performance problem.
> 
> 
> 3ware eh?
> 
> Try setting /sys/block/sda/queue/nr_requests to twice the number
> in /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth


This will improve write performance?  And if this helps, how do I make 
it permanent?

Thanks!