> The larger the read-ahead chunks, the more likely trashing will
> occur. In my opinion, using more than 128 K IO chunks will not
> improve performances with modern hard disks connected to a
> reasonnably fast controller, but will increase memory pressure
> and probably thrashing.
Your opinion seems to differ from actual measurements
made by Roger Larsson and other people.
But yes, increasing the readahead window also increases
the chance of readahead window thrashing. Luckily we can
detect fairly easily if this is happening and use that
to automatically shrink the readahead window...
regards,
Rik
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