On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 14:41 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
My point is basically to move away from "is rhgb a bottleneck", "would parallelization help?" speculation, and have a single graphical display that can immediately provide those answers.
if you go parallal, you *have* to do the readahead-early thing, otherwise you just seek your disk to death and end up being slower most likely....
Not that I'd oppose that; resurrecting that shouldn't be hard if people want to play with it.