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From: "Jeffrey E. Hundstad" <jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu>
To: Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@ics.muni.cz>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Disk schedulers
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:22:13 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47B5BC35.1000700@mnsu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080215155922.GD4269@ics.muni.cz>

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.

-- 
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.
>
> --
> Lukáš Hejtmánek
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-15 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-14 16:21 Disk schedulers Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-02-15  0:02 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-15 10:09   ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-02-15 14:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-15 14:57   ` Prakash Punnoor
2008-02-15 17:11     ` Zan Lynx
2008-02-15 21:32       ` FD Cami
2008-02-16 16:13       ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-02-20 17:04       ` Zdenek Kabelac
2008-02-15 15:59   ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-02-15 16:22     ` Jeffrey E. Hundstad [this message]
2008-02-15 17:36     ` Roger Heflin
2008-02-15 17:24 ` Paulo Marques
2008-02-16 16:15   ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-02-16 17:20 ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-20 18:48   ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-02-21 23:50     ` Giuliano Pochini
2008-02-17 19:38 ` Linda Walsh
2008-02-28 17:14   ` Bill Davidsen

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