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    SubjectRe: [ck] 2.6.16-ck1
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    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
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