Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 4 Oct 2001 20:51:21 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [DATAPOINT] how max_readahead settings affect streaming throughput |
| |
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Roger Larsson wrote:
> I question the decision to use 124 kB as default read ahead maximum.
> The example cited was a FTP server serving 100 clients. With standard > readahead it would give 12.8 MB readahead
[snip]
Ideally the readahead code would scale itself to use as much memory is available, but no more and without putting pressure on the working set too much.
I have some ideas on how to implement this and will start testing them as soon as I have a nice test program for this.
regards,
Rik -- DMCA, SSSCA, W3C? Who cares? http://thefreeworld.net/ (volunteers needed)
http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |