On 12/13/2016 03:46 AM, John Andersen wrote:
Subject says it all.
Would any care to speculate as to which io scheduler one might best use on a machine that had only SSD drive, and no spinning rust?
I wouldn't bother to change the default - I'd rather put in more RAM. SSDs are fast, but everything the kernel can cache in RAM is still a magnitude faster. I have 20G of RAM here on a home oS-13.2 machine: $ echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches $ time find . -ls | wc -l 1918382 real 0m54.814s user 0m5.586s sys 0m8.557s $ time find . -ls | wc -l 1918382 real 0m7.431s user 0m4.357s sys 0m3.401s Have a nice day, Berny -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org