Re: More IO identification problems

2010-11-26 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 26/11/2010 21:14 Adam Vande More said the following: > Thanks, avg and jhell. hald was indeed the culprit, and a > "hal-disable-polling > --device /dev/cd0" has restored my sanity. I never liked the cd notifications > anyway. Although I do plan to get something like that into the kernel one

Re: More IO identification problems

2010-11-26 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 8:33 AM, jhell wrote: > > Perhaps it's some external component? > > E.g. hald is known to perform some disk/media checks every two seconds. > > > > As well syslod will also cause sync to happen prematurely when something > goes to log. > > syslog.conf(5): > *** > To ensur

Re: More IO identification problems

2010-11-26 Thread jhell
On 11/26/2010 08:41, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 26/11/2010 08:05 Adam Vande More said the following: >> As a follow-up, after applying both patches presented in this thread(FreeBSD >> 8.2-PRERELEASE #5: Thu Nov 25 19:14:00 CST 2010), >> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-Novemb

Re: More IO identification problems

2010-11-26 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 26/11/2010 08:05 Adam Vande More said the following: > As a follow-up, after applying both patches presented in this thread(FreeBSD > 8.2-PRERELEASE #5: Thu Nov 25 19:14:00 CST 2010), > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-November/060298.html > > "top -m io" now displays m