>No , I'm not saying that there is a bug, I'm saying that the
>filebuffering works very well in almost all cases , except of reading large
>files from disk continuously.
Could you check `vmstat 1` and verify if you have continous
swapin/swapout? (I bet yes) If I am right then you'll probably want to
apply this my patch and try again and notice the performance difference
with eyes.
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/andrea/kernel-patches/my-2.2.12-final3/no-swapout-2.2.10-B
Andrea
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