Comment 32 for bug 292739

Fabio,

Changing the IO scheduler is easy - it's in /sys/block/$devname/queue/scheduler ($devname = sda in my case), and ubuntu comes with all the normal in-kernel schedulers compiled in - deadline, anticipatory, noop and cfq (the last one being the default one).

I'll try this with the other schedulers and will see if that makes any difference. BTW, can you post some links to the discussions about the block scheduler performance, they might be useful to this bug too.

I don't think that SQLite is the problem, as when I preload it it's blindingly fast - and when you have a single account, it's again really fast. If someone can test evolution with postgresql or mysql, I think we'll see the same results (without the preloading).