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

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dan Harris <fbsd(at)drivefaster(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Linux I/O schedulers - CFQ & random seeks
Date: 2011-03-04 19:02:30
Message-ID: AANLkTi=fRwgJx1-HwaiAPtRXGQTUNUhE4MpPbUYKLXWu@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:39 AM, 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.

This reflects the results I get with a battery backed caching RAID
controller as well, both Areca and LSI. Noop seemed to scale a little
bit better for me than deadline with larger loads, but they were
pretty much within a few % of each other either way. CFQ was also
much slower for us.

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