Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> Tom, All:
>
>> It seems to me what you've found is an outright bug in the linux scheduler.
>> Perhaps posting it to linux-kernel would be worthwhile.
>
> For people using this on Linux 2.6, which scheduler are you using? Deadline
> is the recommended one for databases, and does offer significant (+5-8%)
> benefits in some heavy-contention environments, at least in OSDL tests.
I thought 'deadline' was an I/O scheduler, not a CPU scheduler?
-Doug