Re: [PATCH 1/3] readahead: drop behind

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On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 16:59 -0400, Eric St-Laurent wrote:
> > They are against git of a few hours ago and the latest readahead patches
> > from Wu (which don't apply cleanly either, but the rejects are trivial).
> > 
> > > It would be useful to have a temporary /proc tunable to enable/disable
> > > the heuristic to help test the effects.
> > 
> > Right, I had such a patch somewhere,.. won't apply cleanly but should be
> > obvious..
> 
> Thanks, I will merge theses and report back with some results.
> 
> After copying large files, I find my system sluggish. I hope your
> changes will help.

Yeah, copying will still hurt. This will only help reading large files,
not writing :-/

For that I still need an inspiring idea.

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