[ntp:questions] Disk read hack

Hal Murray hal-usenet at ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net
Thu Mar 20 07:35:29 UTC 2008


I didn't find a reasonable place to insert it in the wiki so
I parked it here for now.

This is a hack that just reads a disk as fast as it can.
It was very "good" at tickling the lost-interrupt problem
on an old RH system which was not using DMA on the disks.

  http://www.megapathdsl.net/~hmurray/hacks/read.c

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