[cut a few Cc's] On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 at 12:59, Teran McKinney wrote: > Which I/O scheduler are you using? Pretty sure that ReiserFS is a > little less deadlocky with CFQ or another over deadline, but that > deadline usually gives the best results for me (especially for JFS). Yes, I'm using the deadline scheduler - it was my understanding that it's usually best when I/O throughput is an issue. If reiserfs is "less deadlocky" with other schedulers, maybe it should depend on !IOSCHED_DEADLINE then or something :) Christian. -- BOFH excuse #19: floating point processor overflow -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html