On 1/5/07, Matt lm7812@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone explain how the disk elevator works and if there is anyway to tweak it? I have an email server which likely has a large number of read and write requests and was wandering if there was anyway to improve performance.
Reasonably decent writeup. Gives a good overview, but I'm not sure how much detail you'd like. http://www.redhat.com/magazine/008jun05/features/schedulers/