On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:21:45 -0400
Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org> 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
