> > workloads, I'm not sure I want to make the system more
> > unfair just to better accomodate dbench ;)
>
> I'm wondering if rmap is a little too aggressive on
> read-ahead, and if that has a negative impact on
> a complex workload.
I haven't changed the readahead code one bit compared
to 2.4 mainline, but I'm wondering the same.
Fixing readahead window sizing has been on my TODO list
for quite a while already.
regards,
Rik
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