Messages in this thread | | | From | Matt Heler <> | Subject | Re: [ck] 2.6.16-ck1 | Date | Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:37:20 -0500 |
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Con,
I believe the author of that readahead patch stated that using the following below would help in desktop usage ::
/sbin/blockdev --setra 256 /dev/XXX
On Thursday 23 March 2006 6:40 am, Con Kolivas wrote: > Rodney Gordon II writes: > > Good job Con, on your patches.. As far as the kernel in general, I'd > > like to post some warnings: > > Thanks. > > > Adaptive readahead: I had probs with this before, and I still do.. On > > a desktop if you have odd problems (nothing responding for SECONDS, > > very slow disk I/O during heavy I/O, etc..) disable it. > > I was concerned about that myself which is why the only reason I included > it was because it came in a configurable form where you could choose to > enable it, and the default was off, and the config option even said > suitable to _servers_, not desktops. > > > The new Yukon2 "sky2" driver: This one really pissed me off. It had me > > thinking apache2 AND my linksys router we're on the brink. For some > > unknown reason at least for me, in FF it would only half-load some > > pages, including ones on localhost AND my router (10.1.1.1) ... I > > dunno what the hell is up with this one. I have to stay with the > > syskonnect.com sk98lin patch, which.. doesn't work with 2.6.16 so I am > > back to 2.6.15 at the moment. > > > > nVidia drivers: Broken. I posted a ftbfs bug on the debian bts, here > > is a current patch that works against the current release: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/nvidia-kernel-source_1.0.817 > >8-2.diff?bug=357992;msg=15;att=1 > > Luckily none of these are my fault. > > > All in all, my experience sucked for the first time on this kernel. > > /me does the "not my fault" look. > > > Good luck with this new one.. > > Heh. No new one in the works just yet, but I'm actually not planning on > changing anything. Turn adaptive readahead off, and you're left with out of > kernel tree, or worse, binary driver problems. > > Cheers, > Con - 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/
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