Again: this time I simultaneously wrote two 3GB files on top af an ext3 fs on top of a 8GB pendrive, ...
------------------ noop ------------------ elapsed: 11' 52", high iowait but no system slowdown, it's quite good. avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 8.01 0.00 6.61 83.31 0.00 2.65 ------------------ anticipatory ------------------ elapsed: 11' 56", high iowait but no system slowdown, it's quite good. avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 6.51 0.00 6.01 82.96 0.00 5.16 ------------------ deadline ------------------ elapsed: 11' 58", high iowait but no system slowdown, it's quite good. avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 6.87 0.02 7.58 79.64 0.00 6.54 ------------------ cfq ------------------ elapsed: 19' 50", visible system slowdown with many app, but it's still usable. avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 5.44 0.00 6.39 82.24 0.00 6.30 ------------------------------------------- This time in iostat I can't see significative difference between cases, but the system become slow and unresponsive with cfq... Now, I'm much more disappointed... -- elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381300 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs