Hi, I have noticed that in default SL5.5 disk operations tend to hugely
tie up my pc. For example when writing large files (of the order of 10
GB) I may have to wait 30 seconds before I can get a response from
another application on the desktop. Is there another i/o scheduler other
than the default that I can specify presumably as a kernel command in
the grub boot loader config file? I recently swapped over from debian
lenny and the i/o scheduler there was much more equitable to the point
where the desktop user didn't notice - it meant disk writes were slower
but I can put up with that. Sorry if this has already been asked
recently

Thanks.

Richard