Re: [ck] 2.6.16-ck1

[Matt Heler <lkml@lpbproductions.com>]

Con,

I believe the author of that readahead patch stated that using the following 
below would help in desktop usage :: 

/sbin/blockdev --setra 256 /dev/XXX



On Thursday 23 March 2006 6:40 am, Con Kolivas wrote:
> Rodney Gordon II writes:
> > Good job Con, on your patches.. As far as the kernel in general, I'd
> > like to post some warnings:
>
> Thanks.
>
> > Adaptive readahead: I had probs with this before, and I still do.. On
> > a desktop if you have odd problems (nothing responding for SECONDS,
> > very slow disk I/O during heavy I/O, etc..) disable it.
>
> I was concerned about that myself which is why the only reason I included
> it was because it came in a configurable form where you could choose to
> enable it, and the default was off, and the config option even said
> suitable to _servers_, not desktops.
>
> > The new Yukon2 "sky2" driver: This one really pissed me off. It had me
> > thinking apache2 AND my linksys router we're on the brink. For some
> > unknown reason at least for me, in FF it would only half-load some
> > pages, including ones on localhost AND my router (10.1.1.1) ... I
> > dunno what the hell is up with this one. I have to stay with the
> > syskonnect.com sk98lin patch, which.. doesn't work with 2.6.16 so I am
> > back to 2.6.15 at the moment.
> >
> > nVidia drivers: Broken. I posted a ftbfs bug on the debian bts, here
> > is a current patch that works against the current release:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/nvidia-kernel-source_1.0.817
> >8-2.diff?bug=357992;msg=15;att=1
>
> Luckily none of these are my fault.
>
> > All in all, my experience sucked for the first time on this kernel.
>
> /me does the "not my fault" look.
>
> > Good luck with this new one..
>
> Heh. No new one in the works just yet, but I'm actually not planning on
> changing anything. Turn adaptive readahead off, and you're left with out of
> kernel tree, or worse, binary driver problems.
>
> Cheers,
> Con