Re: Disk schedulers

[Lukas Hejtmanek]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:11:26AM -0700, Zan Lynx wrote:
> Yes, I see this often myself.  It's like the disk IO queue (I set mine
> to 1024) fills up, and pdflush and friends can stuff write requests into
> it much more quickly than any other programs can provide read requests.
> 
> CFQ and ionice work very well up until iostat shows average IO queuing
> above 1024 (where I set the queue number).

I though that CFQ would maintain IO queues per process and pick up request in
round robin from non-empty queues. Am I wrong? And if wrong, isn't it desired
behavior for desktop?

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Lukáš Hejtmánek
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