Re: Linux disk performance.

From: Daniel Cheng
Date: Thu Dec 21 2006 - 02:16:14 EST


Manish Regmi wrote:
[...]

If you upgrade to a newer kernel you can try other i/o scheduler
options, default cfq or even deadline might be helpful.

I tried all disk schedulers but all had timing bumps. :(


Did you try to disable the on disk write cache?

man hdparm(8)

-W Disable/enable the IDE driveÂs write-caching
feature


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