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sreadahead package

  1. Bug #421116
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 421116

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote : Re: [Bug 421116] Re: sreadahead uses 100 % of the CPU in Karmic

On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 17:52 +0000, Anders Kaseorg wrote:

> As it turns out, the 100% CPU time is spent bubble-sorting a list of
> readahead records. That’s idiotic. The C library comes with a standard
> qsort() function for a reason. This is easy to fix and we should do so.
>
Right, I'd looked into this before and switched to qsort() but then
broke other things.

Hadn't had a change to follow-up further.

Thanks for investigating and doing the patch, I'll certainly apply this
one! Good work!

Scott
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