linux-kernel - Re: Linux disk performance.

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Message-ID: <emdcar$7a0$1@sea.gmane.org>
Date:	Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:15:39 +0800
From:	Daniel Cheng <gmane@...z.net>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	kernelnewbies@...linux.org
Subject:  Re: Linux disk performance.

Manish Regmi wrote:
[...]
>>
>> If you upgrade to a newer kernel you can try other i/o scheduler
>> options, default cfq or even deadline might be helpful.
> 
> I tried all disk schedulers but all had timing bumps. :(
> 

Did you try to disable the on disk write cache?

man hdparm(8)

   -W     Disable/enable the IDE drive´s write-caching
          feature

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