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by dorlaor 2610 days ago
We at Scylla tune the kernel, drives, stride, clock source automatically and benchmark the disk to figure out what's its maximum parallelism so it won't queue (we can saturate 8 NVMe) and we'll do the queuing within the DB's userspace so we can prioritize real time queries over background tasks:

https://www.scylladb.com/2018/04/19/scylla-i-o-scheduler-3/