This is my personal FS box. It consists of 4X200GB SATA drives on an Adaptec AAR-2810 controller in RAID10. I am using bonnie++ to benchmark. The reason I am throwing this up is that when I switched schedulers to deadline with 3 drives in a RAID5 on this system (I changed to a 10 later) it picked up about 5% by going to a deadline scheduler in sustained writes. If you notice in this case while I had a few small gains aggregately I lost a significant amount of performance at one point or another compared to the default scheduler. Then again, this array has write performance at a level typical of a single drive if not a little slower. It makes up for it in the fact that it has roughly double the read of a typical drive, which can be far more important depending on the application. Since it’s just a dump box anyways I’m not overly concerned about IO. Check the results out and post your opinions. I will probably add other tuning specifics at a later date. Please note this does not under any circumstances make CFQ my preferred scheduler; it just means it was better in this case.
cfq (default)
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Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP
FS01.robotone 1000M 34694 88 39045 27 19030 8 36912 68 63545 12 496.2 1
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-Create– –Read— -Delete– -Create– –Read— -Delete–
files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP
16 19929 100 +++++ +++ 32373 99 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++
FS01.robotonet.com,1000M,34694,88,39045,27,19030,8,36912,68,63545,12,496.2,1,16,19929,100,+++++,+++,32373,99,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++
echo deadline > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
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Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP
FS01.robotone 1000M 30986 88 38772 31 16724 7 29545 56 62167 11 482.5 1
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-Create– –Read— -Delete– -Create– –Read— -Delete–
files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP
16 20401 99 +++++ +++ 26963 99 29849 99 +++++ +++ +++++ +++
FS01.robotonet.com,1000M,30986,88,38772,31,16724,7,29545,56,62167,11,482.5,1,16,20401,99,+++++,+++,26963,99,29849,99,+++++,+++,+++++,+++
echo anticipatory > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
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Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP
FS01.robotone 1000M 33134 94 38153 28 17225 8 30326 58 65073 10 346.8 0
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-Create– –Read— -Delete– -Create– –Read— -Delete–
files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP
16 19071 94 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++
FS01.robotonet.com,1000M,33134,94,38153,28,17225,8,30326,58,65073,10,346.8,0,16,19071,94,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++
echo noop > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
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Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP
FS01.robotone 1000M 29617 86 39779 27 16359 7 29197 57 62977 10 496.6 1
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-Create– –Read— -Delete– -Create– –Read— -Delete–
files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP
16 20130 99 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++
FS01.robotonet.com,1000M,29617,86,39779,27,16359,7,29197,57,62977,10,496.6,1,16,20130,99,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++