Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 08 Sep 2003 17:10:29 -0400 | From | Paul Clements <> | Subject | Re: [NBD] patch and documentation |
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Sven Köhler wrote:
> Well, i guess the cache uses a value of 256 sectors to do read-ahead and > such.
Well it sounds like the real problem here is the vm_max_readahead setting then. Try this:
cat /proc/sys/vm/max-readahead
Probably, it's set to 31 on your system.
Try something like the following:
echo "126" > /proc/sys/vm/max-readahead
I think that should help out.
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