if anything elevator=deadline seems to cause higher iowait and for longer periods (I even saw a 100% for it with that setting) when running trackerd
average iowait values when tracker is flushing to disk during heavy indexing of same files: for feisty 2.6.20-15 : 90-95% for 2.6.22-9 : 90-99% for 2.6.22-9 with elevator=deadline: 95-100% -- Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131094 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs