-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > The kernel includes three schedulers: anticipatory, deadline and (the > default) CFQ, whereas the author refers only to "old" and "new" schedulers. > I wonder which of the features he describes are common to all three. I also > wonder which kernel version introduced the "new" scheduler. I have a reason > for this interest, which I intend to describe in a separate thread. >
Those are the IO schedulers. He was referring to the O(1) process scheduler. The former handles block device contention, the latter handles CPU contention. Both are important, but these days IO scheduling is more likely to be the source of slowness... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGdQ62G4/rWKZmVWkRAj+dAJ9IrfodLG3xCywqJnkMJRvZMkgBXQCgjNQK alBSbxDT3aL6RCLEZZbWBIo= =Gudr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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