On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:46 AM, A. Wright <and...@qemg.org> wrote: > > I have recently upgraded my system to 8.0, and in the > course of doing so, have migrated most filesystems > onto a new drive. >
Did you dd it across? If so, that's kind of a no-no in some situtation as the boundries won't be aligned resulting in slow disk. You should use a different tool like dump/restore. > > This seems to most commonly happen when both reading > and writing tasks are active -- I am unsure whether reads writes must be in > the same partition, or whether > two partitions on the same drive are sufficient. > If this is one of them "eco" drives, you may wish to investigate things like firmware updates etc. You can also try using achi, it has quite a benefits including speed. Make sure to read up on it first. -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ 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"