Changing the default IO scheduler in Kubuntu

[Rohan Garg]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Rohan Garg <rohangarg at kubuntu.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 18:49:24 Harald Sitter wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Rohan Garg <rohangarg at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>> > Feel free to air any concerns you might have over here.
>>>
>>> I still think there should be a formal bug report for the foundations
>>> team to investigate why we are not using CFQ by default anyway.
>>>
>>> At any rate +1 to not having shit performance on !ssds.
>>>
>
> Ack.
>
>>
>> Additionally, this is the kind of thing that needs an FFe now, so once it's
>> sorted with foundations, then the release team needs a go at it.
>
> I don't see how this is a feature. It's a bug fix at the most to be
> honest, upstream requires CFQ at runtime instead of Deadline, and
> we're fixing that runtime dep.
>
> Also, I did run this past foundations a couple of months ago where I
> asked if there could be any issues for Kubuntu, and off the top of
> their head they could not think any. But as Harald mentioned, a bug
> should be opened for the foundations team to investigate switching
> back to CFQ.
>
> Cheers
> Rohan Garg

This has been changed as of now in Utopic with this [1] upload.
Additionally there is
[2] for the foundations team to figure out.

Cheers
Rohan Garg

[1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-settings/1:14.10ubuntu3
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1310402