I observe substantial lag under heavy I/O (in my case I was unzipping a multigigabyte archive) with the deadline scheduler. Manually switching to the cfq scheduler improved responsiveness and eliminated the lag. Perhaps cfq is a better choice for the desktop version?
I observe substantial lag under heavy I/O (in my case I was unzipping a multigigabyte archive) with the deadline scheduler. Manually switching to the cfq scheduler improved responsiveness and eliminated the lag. Perhaps cfq is a better choice for the desktop version?