At MySQL Conference and Expo 2009, I explained how Linux I/O scheduler queue size affects MyISAM insert performance. It is well known that Linux implemented four types of I/O schedulers (noop/deadline/anticipatory/cfq) in Linux kernel 2.6.10. The default is cfq in most distributions including RHEL, which is not so good then noop normally outperforms, but I'll talk this in other posts. Linux I/O sc