Worky (!),
On 10/31/06 12:11 PM, "Worky Workerson" <worky(dot)workerson(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Any recommendations on what to
> look at to find a fix? One thing which I never mentioned was that I
> am using ext3 mounted with noatime,data=writeback.
You can try setting the max readahead like this:
/sbin/blockdev --setra 16384 /dev/sd[a-z]
It will set the max readahead to 16MB for whatever devices are in
/dev/sd[a-z] for the booted machine. You'd need to put the line(s) in
/etc/rc.d/rc.local to have the setting persist on reboot.
- Luke