Re: all three IO Schedulers turned on in 2.6.10-rc3-mm1 ???

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Dec 17 2004 - 02:48:39 EST


On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 14:10 -0500, Steven A. DuChene wrote:
> I downloaded and built the 2.6.10-rc3-mm1 kernel and I noticed while
> configuring it that in the Device Drivers > Block devices > IO Schedulers
> area that by default all three IO Schedulers are turned on. Is this a
> normal condition or is there only supposed to be one of these turned on?
>
yes, you can change them runtime in /sys/block/<dev>/queue/scheduler

> The reason I am concerned about this is that ever since I have booted
> into this kernel I have a lot of things failing and when they fail
> they return a message like "Inappropriate ioctl for device"
>
see:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/13/69

> I get this when trying to do a simple wget (remote address fails to resolve)
> and when trying to run any X program against the Xserver running on the system.
--
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>

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