On Sun, Aug 12 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 14:11:37 -0400 > Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 10 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> > You also don't need an IO scheduler - ssd access is random like >> > RAM, no heads moving in and out so no sector ordering to worry >> > about. Configure the scheduler as NOOP in kernel config if all >> > drives are ssd's >> >> I believe dell with be "throwing in" a removable spinning disk that >> can be user swapped with the dvd so I should probably keep the I/O >> scheduler. > > You can set the scheduler per-device too, more info here: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives#I.2FO_Scheduler > > Someone else reported though that Deadline scheduler can actually > performs better, I also read that somewhere. Maybe you should do some > initial tests yourself before deciding
Yes, that sounds like a good idea and the article you just mentioned looks to be quite helpful. thanks, allan
