Comment 312 for bug 131094

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Johannes H. Jensen (joh) wrote : Re: [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

I haven't tried writeback, no. Is it possible to remount with this
option, or do I need to modify fstab and reboot?

- Johannes

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Peter Hoeg <email address hidden> wrote:
> Have you tried mounting the filesystems with writeback instead of
> ordered?
>
> /peter
>
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 15:42, Johannes H. Jensen <email address hidden> wrote:
>> I just tested with the anticipatory scheduler on the stock Ubuntu
>> 2.6.32:
>>
>> # echo anticipatory > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
>>
>> This did not seem to have any effect - the problem was still very much
>> present.
>>