On Sunday 17 June 2007 11:36:46 Richard Freeman wrote: > 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...
Ah. Thanks. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
