Re: Poor performance during disk writes

From: Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2001 - 13:29:43 EST

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On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:

> You need to run
> elvtune -b N /dev/hdXX
> where N=0 is "disable", N=1 is minimum read latency, N=6 is
> a reasonable setting.

I'm curious, why was max_bomb_segments dropped the last time
it was in the tree ? I recall it happening, but the reason
escapes me.

Dave.

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