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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB mass storage device slow in Gentoo, fast in Windows...? [SOLVED]
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:42:40
Message-Id: 201001051040.25907.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB mass storage device slow in Gentoo, fast in Windows...? [SOLVED] by Stroller
1 On Tuesday 05 January 2010 10:15:00 Stroller wrote:
2 > On 5 Jan 2010, at 06:21, Mick wrote:
3 > >> ...
4 > >> Solved. The problem was CFQ I/O scheduler. It was several times slower
5 > >> than the others, for whatever reason.
6 > >> ...
7 > >
8 > > Hmmm ... reading at the help files I thought that CFQ was the
9 > > default/best option for a desktop. Is there such a thing as a best fit
10 > > here?
11 >
12 > I had this notion that it was the worst option for everything, unless your
13 > computer has 96+ CPUs.
14
15 I had this notion that the author of the help files was talking through a hole
16 in his butt and just expressing his own views.
17
18 --
19 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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