I/O Scheduling results in poor responsiveness

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 14:35:41 -0500,
  Chris Snook <csnook at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Ultimately, if latency is a high priority for you, you should switch to the 
> deadline scheduler.

Is there an easy way to do this? My desktop seems pretty sluggish since
switching to rawhide and I suspect it is disk IO related. I'd like to
try out another scheduler and see if it helps.