Re: Linux 2.6.29

[Stephen Clark]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:03:53 -0700
> Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I remember early in the 2.6.x days there was a lot of focus on making
> > interactive performance good, and for a long time it was.  But this
> > I/O problem has been around for a *long* time now... What happened?
> > Do not many people run into this daily?  Do all the filesystem
> > hackers run with special mount options to mitigate the problem?
>
> the people that care use my kernel patch on ext3 ;-)
> (or the userland equivalent tweak in /etc/rc.local)
Ok, I bite what is the userland tweak?

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