Re: Disk schedulers

From: Jeffrey E. Hundstad
Date: Fri Feb 15 2008 - 11:50:54 EST


Lukas Hejtmanek,

I have to say, that I've heard this subject before, the summary answer seems to be, that the kernel can not guess the wishes of the user 100% of the time. If you have a low priority I/O task use ionice(1) to set the priority of that task so it doesn't nuke your high priority task.

I have to personal stake in this answer but I can report that for my high I/O tasks it does work like a charm.

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Jeffrey Hundstad

Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 03:42:58PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Also consider
- DMA (e.g. only UDMA2 selected)
- aging disk

it's not the case.

hdparm reports udma5 is used, if it is reliable with libata.

The disk is 3 months old, kernel does not report any errors. And it has never
been different.

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Lukáš Hejtmánek
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