At 12:01 -0400 26/9/07, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
CFQ is intended for single disk workstations and it's io limits are based on that, so it actually acts as an io govenor on RAID setups.
Only use 'cfq' on single disk workstations.
Use 'deadline' on RAID setups and servers.
Many thanks Ross, that's one variable tied down at least :-)
S.