Choosing the right scheduler on a virtual maschine (kvm)
Posted on Tue 20 August 2013 in Linux • Tagged with KVM, Linux, VMware, Notepad • 1 min read
The default i/o scheduler is the Completely Fair Queuing (cfq) in the 2.6 kernel. This is not the first choice for a virtual machine/hypervisor. The combination of the noop and the deadline scheduler is much better for a virtualization host.
virtual machine: noop
hypervisor: deadline
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