Re: Linux I/O schedulers - CFQ & random seeks

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Dan Harris" <fbsd(at)drivefaster(dot)net>, <Glyn Astill <glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Linux I/O schedulers - CFQ & random seeks
Date: 2011-03-04 19:07:00
Message-ID: 4D70E3F4020000250003B4B1@gw.wicourts.gov
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Dan Harris <fbsd(at)drivefaster(dot)net> wrote:

> Just another anecdote, I found that the deadline scheduler
> performed the best for me. I don't have the benchmarks anymore
> but deadline vs cfq was dramatically faster for my tests. I
> posted this to the list years ago and others announced similar
> experiences. Noop was a close 2nd to deadline.

That was our experience when we benchmarked a few years ago. Some
more recent benchmarks seem to have shown improvements in cfq, but
we haven't had enough of a problem with our current setup to make it
seem worth the effort of running another set of benchmarks on that.

-Kevin

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