Re: XFS/Tux readahead setting???

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> And last time this came up, you could not change the application,
> correct? Otherwise I would say use O_DIRECT in XFS to do the reads,
> and use threads in the application to do explicit readahead into
> buffers.
>
> Try bumping up the max and see what happens, but I think a lot of the
> lower layers will automatically split it again, I don't think the IDE
> code goes bigger than 128K anyway.

I'm currently using the tux web server, and I really don't know how to
tell it to read the next - say - 4 megs of the file.

I'd be glad if this could be settable in the kernel...
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Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA

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