> I'm on a quest to do some serious tuning to some of my production systems. > All are on CentOS 5.x ranging from 5.0 to 5.4. I've been reading up on the > various IO schedulers available in the kernel and I'm hoping some of you can > lend some insightful suggestions. I typically have three classes of system in > production:
> I welcome your suggestions and experiences. :-) First and foremost, I think that the only correct answer to how to tune your system is "it depends". There are lots of factors at play, although disk access is one of the largest, if not the largest factor that can be tuned. There is no silver bullet answer here. You need to make one change at a time, measure your system performance and compare. Beginning with RHEL 5, you can select a different elevator algorithm for each block device .. which may be useful to you. If possible, I highly recommend the RH442 - Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning class offered by Red Hat. It is very in depth and does a good job of covering material which by many respects is seen as "black magic". HTH, Barry _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
