From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 14 00:33:32 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA09995 for current-outgoing; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 00:33:32 -0800 Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA09978 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 00:33:19 -0800 Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0tFGnr-0003vyC; Tue, 14 Nov 95 00:33 PST Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA00254; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 09:33:12 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.tfs.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: davidg@Root.COM cc: current@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Nov 1995 00:22:43 PST." <199511140822.AAA00179@corbin.Root.COM> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 09:33:11 +0100 Message-ID: <252.816337991@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >> Attached is the patch to disable disk block sorting. It's interesting - > >> I've been doing some tests here with disksort disabled and I'm actually se ein > > > >Another thing we should >seriously< consider is to make the update do 10% > >of the job every 3 seconds rather than 100% every 30 seconds. > > Been there, done that. It results in a large increase in the amount of dis k > I/O due to the way that delayed writes work and file access times are updated