Pay attention to the default IO scheduler

With recent versions of Ubuntu running as Xen DomU’s I’ve noticed that the default scheduler is deadline.  I’ve read documentation that noop should be the preferred scheduler.  However, I make use of ionice, as do disk intensive programs such as fcheck.  It’s not often noted but ionice only works with the cfq scheduler and because …

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Running Xen on Various Linux Distributions

I have been looking to various GNU/Linux distributions to determine their level of support for Xen.  Here’s what I found: Debian Etch – Xen Hypervisor 3.2.1 (via backports), Linux kernel 2.6.26 (via backports) Debian Lenny – Xen Hypervisor 3.2.1, Linux dom0 kernel 2.6.26 Debian Squeeze (testing) – Xen Hypervisor 3.4.2, Linux dom0 kernel ??? Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) …

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