Comment 9 for bug 131094

Same here. elevator=deadline doesn't seem to help, although I don't have
any objective data to complement Jamie's

Jamie McCracken escribió:
> if anything elevator=deadline seems to cause higher iowait and for
> longer periods (I even saw a 100% for it with that setting) when
> running trackerd
>
> average iowait values when tracker is flushing to disk during heavy
> indexing of same files:
>
> for feisty 2.6.20-15 : 90-95%
> for 2.6.22-9 : 90-99%
> for 2.6.22-9 with elevator=deadline: 95-100%
>

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