[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS cd-dvd.html,1.51,1.52

Winner of tha face compo gabucino at mplayerhq.hu
Thu Dec 19 22:35:47 CET 2002


Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS
In directory mail:/var/tmp.root/cvs-serv12554

Modified Files:
	cd-dvd.html 
Log Message:

too big readahead can be bad


Index: cd-dvd.html
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RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/cd-dvd.html,v
retrieving revision 1.51
retrieving revision 1.52
diff -u -r1.51 -r1.52
--- cd-dvd.html	31 Oct 2002 05:07:43 -0000	1.51
+++ cd-dvd.html	19 Dec 2002 21:35:30 -0000	1.52
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@
 <P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>echo file_readahead:2000000 &gt; /proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings</CODE></P>
 
 <P>This sets prefetched file reading to 2MB, which helps with scratched CD-ROMs.
+  If you set it to too high, the drive will continuously spin up and down, and
+  will dramatically decrease the performance.
   It is recommended that you also tune your CD-ROM drive with hdparm:</P>
 
 <P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 (cdrom device)</CODE></P>




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