On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:21:45 -0400 Douglas McNaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.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? Yes, that's correct. That's an i/o elevator algorithm. Mark ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings