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If you've got enough ram, you might be able to tune prefetching to prefetch the whole file? Although, I'm not sure how tunable that actually is.
by toast0 2y ago
If you've got enough ram, you might be able to tune prefetching to prefetch the whole file? Although, I'm not sure how tunable that actually is.
- iforgotpassword 2y agoYes, I think nowadays you do this with blockdev --setra <num_sectors> /dev/sdX But I feel like there was a sysctl for this too in the past. I used it back in the day to make the HDD in my laptop spin down immediately after a new song started playing in rhythmbox by setting it to 16MB.