Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

[Joshua Doll]

Jason Carson wrote:
> I was reading this article (http://lwn.net/Articles/114770/) which says...
>
> AS (Anticipatory Scheduler) still seems to be better for desktop systems
> and IDE disks
>
> ... I have a server, not a desktop system but am using an IDE disk so
> which scheduler is better for a server. Should I stay with anticipatory
> because I am using an IDE disk or switch to something else because my
> system is a server?
>
>
>
That article is before the work began on the CFS/CFQ scheduler. There 
has been a lot of improvements made to the CFQ scheduler in the past year.

http://kerneltrap.org/node/8059

I don't know which one would be better for a server. If you aren't 
having any issues with the scheduler now I don't see a reason to switch.


--Joshua Doll

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