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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
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 08:15:59
Message-Id: 12279C6F-3E34-4FD2-AC41-EFB512801CFE@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB mass storage device slow in Gentoo, fast in Windows...? [SOLVED] by Mick
1 On 5 Jan 2010, at 06:21, Mick wrote:
2 >> ...
3 >> Solved. The problem was CFQ I/O scheduler. It was several times slower
4 >> than the others, for whatever reason.
5 >> ...
6 >
7 > Hmmm ... reading at the help files I thought that CFQ was the default/best
8 > option for a desktop. Is there such a thing as a best fit here?
9
10 I had this notion that it was the worst option for everything, unless your computer has 96+ CPUs.
11
12 Stroller.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB mass storage device slow in Gentoo, fast in Windows...? [SOLVED] Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>