On Nov 30, 2009, at 12:38 PM, O. Hartmann wrote: > Thomas Backman wrote: >> On Nov 30, 2009, at 9:47 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: >>> I'm just wondering what's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0/amd64 when I read the >>> Benchmarks on Phoronix.org's website. Especially FreeBSD's threaded I/O >>> shows in contrast to all claims that have been to be improoved the opposite. >> Corrected link: >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=freebsd8_benchmarks&num=1 >> And yeah, quite honestly: disk scheduling in FreeBSD appears to suck... The >> only reason I'm not switching from Linux. :( >> Regards, >> Thomas >> (PS. See my thread about horrible console latency during disk IO in the >> archives, very related. DS.) > > Hello Thomas. > I recall myself having had similar problems during heavy disk I/O (UFS and > ZFS) with stuck console, stuck clients and especially stuck X11-clients. The > discussion was really 'hot', but in the end no clear statement was made > whether this is disk-i/o related or a deeper problem in the scheduler. > > Sorry for the lack of the link, I thought Phoronix is well known ... > > Oliver That's too bad, re: the scheduling. It seems to be a quite universal problem, yet I haven't seen much effort spent on working on the problem. :/
Re: phoronix, I commented mostly because the site is .com and not .org, so I came to a parked domain when I clicked your link. :) Also, I figured linking directly to the article will help the archives. Regards, Thomas_______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
