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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new installation (ssd, new udev, grub2)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:04:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2Nv+W-FHvzc2k+0LCZ3yEJvb0q+BO3RZ1LV7tqd_2K==g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120810212213.0ce6e810@khamul.example.com>

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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've read some contradictory reports about the best scheduler for SSD.
Apparently some SSD controllers are tuned for sequential reads/writes
(drives that lean heavily on compression, I would imagine?) and for
those drives cfq or deadline may be the better choice. I would try
them all and use whatever works best for your workload.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-10 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-10 14:25 [gentoo-user] new installation (ssd, new udev, grub2) Allan Gottlieb
2012-08-10 19:22 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-08-10 20:04   ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2012-08-12 18:20     ` Allan Gottlieb
2012-08-12 18:11   ` Allan Gottlieb
2012-08-12 19:44     ` Alan McKinnon
2012-08-13 12:52       ` Allan Gottlieb
2012-08-13  8:06     ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-13 12:17       ` Michael Mol
2012-08-13 12:57         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-13 15:47         ` Alan McKinnon
2012-08-13 15:55           ` Michael Mol
2012-08-13 17:55             ` Pandu Poluan
2012-08-13 21:38             ` Alan McKinnon
2012-08-15  2:33               ` J.Marcos Sitorus
2012-08-15 16:42                 ` Paul Hartman
2012-08-15 20:48                   ` Mick
2012-08-15 21:14                     ` Paul Hartman
2012-08-15 23:41                       ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-16  7:51                   ` J.Marcos Sitorus
2012-08-16 14:55                     ` Paul Hartman
2012-08-16 15:21                     ` Pandu Poluan
2012-08-13 12:44       ` Allan Gottlieb

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