> On 21 Jun 2022, at 13:20, Jakub Wartak <Jakub(dot)Wartak(at)tomtom(dot)com> wrote:
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> Maybe the important question is why would be readahead mechanism be disabled in the first place via /sys | blockdev ?
Because database should know better than OS which data needs to be prefetched and which should not. Big OS readahead affects index scan performance.
Best regards, Andrey Borodin.