Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE >> >> I'm trying to do a large local rsync in the background, while listening to >> streaming audio via RealPlayer and do other stuff. I have the rsync >> running at nice level 20 ("nice -20") which I've confirmed via ps:
Please try: http://www.chesapeake.net/~jroberson/flushbuf.diff before this discussion degenerates into the usual handwaving. The patch seems to fix some awful performance issue with certain disk i/o loads in 5.4. I don't know whether it's included in 5.4-stable by now. mkb. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"