On Saturday 15 December 2007, forgottenwizard wrote: > On 15:27 Thu 13 Dec , Jason Carson wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Where in the kernel config (make menuconfig) do I find the choice for > > schedulers. The one I am currently using is "Anticipatory". What is the > > newest and latest scheduler for 2.6.23? > > > > Regards, > > > > Jason Carson > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > Like someone else mentioned, you can switch the sched on the fly, and > quite easily. From what I have seen myself: > > Anticipatory seems to be, at times, faster than deadline, but not by > much. It tries to predict what will be needed next, where as deadline > makes reads/writes based on which will be the fastest (recomended for > databases and such iirc). > > In my experiance, CFQ has always been the slowest. It gives everything > even time, and seems to cause alot more head movement than the other > two, which is a pain. > > Best bet is to compile them all in, and switch them out to see what > works best. For me that seems to be deadline (btw, I am running a > desktop), but testing would be the best thing.
Is testing a matter of how 'it feels' to use the desktop type-of-thing, or is it a matter of trying to start/run multiple apps against a stop-watch? I have used anticipatory and CFQ on my laptop and I am not sure that I can tell the difference . . . -- Regards, Mick
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