Comment 275 for bug 131094

Actually, there is this PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~darxus/+archive/bfsbfq

That have the BFS scheduler and BFQ I/O scheduler which may also play
an interesting role here. I have not tried it yet but I should try it
soon.

best,

Paulo

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Jeff Epstein <email address hidden> wrote:
> I believe that this problem can be alleviated by using Con Kolivas's BFS
> scheduler instead of the stock scheduler. There are PPAs on Launchpad
> where you can get kernels with the BFS scheduler for Lucid and Karmic.
> On my system, it really seems to make the system much more reponsive. I
> hope that the Linux kernel team consider including the BFS scheduler as
> an option in future kernel releases, and until then I think the Ubuntu
> team should consider making a BFS kernel the default for the desktop
> version of Ubuntu.
>
> --
> Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131094
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(Associate Professor, Computer Science Dept.)
Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil

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