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From Claudio Freire
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In response to Re: Two identical systems, radically different performance  (Craig James <cjames@emolecules.com>)
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On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Craig James <cjames@emolecules.com> wrote:
>> >  # blockdev --getra /dev/sdb1
>> > 256
>>
>>
>> It's probably this. 256 is way too low to saturate your I/O system.
>> Pump it up. I've found 8192 works nice for a system I have, 32000 I
>> guess could work too.
>
>
> But again ... the two systems are identical.  This can't explain it.

Is the read-ahead the same in both systems?


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