Hard disk bottle neck.

[Bill Moran]

Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
>
> after you recompile the kernel with that patch, check your disk 
> performance in some directory consisting of many large files
> 
> cd that_dir
> for x in *;do (cat $x >/dev/null &);done
> 
> while running systat,:vmstat on another console

More specifically, do this before and after you make the change, to
demonstrate whether or not you actually fixed the problem.

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Bill Moran
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