On 18.08.2010, Milan Broz wrote: > What is the IO scheduler for the underlying device? > (You can try deadline or cfq with some tuning - this is > possible to tune online). On my system, I get the best results with these (cfq): echo "1" > /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/low_latency echo "8" > /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/slice_idle echo "8" > /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/quantum On some systems, things improve with slice_idle set to 0. _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt