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Message-ID: <b14e81f00707251528i275b0f6by235acce2d5b83473@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:28:46 -0400 From: "Michael Chang" <thenewme91@...il.com> To: "Paul Jackson" <pj@....com> Cc: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>, david@...g.hm, nickpiggin@...oo.com.au, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, ray-lk@...rabbit.org, jesper.juhl@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ck@....kolivas.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, rene.herman@...il.com Subject: Re: [ck] Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 On 7/25/07, Paul Jackson <pj@....com> wrote: > Question: > Could those who have found this prefetch helps them alot say how > many disks they have? In particular, is their swap on the same > disk spindle as their root and user files? I have found that swap prefetch helped on all of the four machines machine I have, although the effect is more noticeable on machines with slower disks. They all have one hard disk, and root and swap were always on the same disk. I have no idea how to determine how many disk spindles they have, but since the drives are mainly low-end consumer models sold with low-end sub $500 PCs... -- Michael Chang Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. Send me ODT, RTF, or HTML instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Thank you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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