io scheduling / serializing io requests / readahead

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Wed, 5 Dec 2001 18:27:30 +0100 (CET)

hi

Are there any ways to tell Linux to use some sort of readahead
functionality that'll give me the ability to schedule I/O more loosely, so
some 100 files can be read concurrently without ruining the system by
seeking all the time?

I've tried to alter /proc/sys/vm/(min|max)-readahead, but it doesn't have
any effect...

roy

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Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA


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