[ntp:questions] Disk read hack

Venu Gopal neo.venu at gmail.com
Thu Mar 20 08:19:18 UTC 2008


Thanks a lot !

Hal Murray wrote:
> 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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