interesting blog post
http://mysqldba.blogspot.com/2006/11/io-schedulers-matter.html

i will check if io scheduler has some
effect on firebird databases too
i saw some redhat benchmarks with oracle and seems that io schedulers do
have some performance gain (that is scheduler's sole raison d'être after all
)

some related papers

http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+2.6+i%2Fo+schedule

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