linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.29

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Date:	Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:40:43 -0400
From:	Stephen Clark <sclark46@...thlink.net>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
CC:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	David Rees <drees76@...il.com>, Jesper Krogh <jesper@...gh.cc>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:03:53 -0700
> Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org> wrote:
> 
>> I remember early in the 2.6.x days there was a lot of focus on making
>> interactive performance good, and for a long time it was.  But this
>> I/O problem has been around for a *long* time now... What happened?
>> Do not many people run into this daily?  Do all the filesystem
>> hackers run with special mount options to mitigate the problem?
>>
> 
> the people that care use my kernel patch on ext3 ;-)
> (or the userland equivalent tweak in /etc/rc.local)
> 
> 
> 
Ok, I bite what is the userland tweak?

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