kernel IO schedulers

[Net Llama!]

On 12/31/2004 10:17 AM, Federico Voges wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thursday 30 December 2004 14:58, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>I could be wrong, but I think that in 2.6.10 there's a choice of several
>>different schedulers in the kernel:
>>
>># IO Schedulers
>>#
>>CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y
>>CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS=y
>>CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE=y
>>CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=y
>>
>>What I'm wondering is what happens if you chose Y for all of them (as
>>above)?
>>
>>The reason I'm asking is that I did choose Y for all of them, and now in
>>2.6.10 (but not in earlier kernels) i'm getting some horrific
>>performance in X (XFCE specifically).  Scrolling in windows is sluggish,
>>sometimes even typing gets lagged.  I'm starting to think that I was
>>supposed to choose just one of the schedulers, but I'd like some input.
> 
> 
> Stupid question: have you checked if there's help for those options??

Yes, I did, and there is.


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