Re: anticipatory io scheduler changed to deadline?

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 11:02:22AM -0500, Charles R. Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 08:38:04AM -0500, Neal D. Becker wrote:
> > I noticed that on booting 2.6.4-1.281 it says using deadline io scheduler,
> > instead of anticipatory io scheduler.  Is this change intentional?
> 
> I've heard some say that deadline is better for desktops.

Anticipatory performs dreadfully for swap. Many desktops have one disk.
The rest follows logically.