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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r277204 - head/sys/amd64/conf
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 05:35:41PM +0300, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> On 15.01.2015 17:08, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > When you read one big file *once* you don't have to worry about caching
> > reads.  With everything moved to modules, loader does a lot of
> > superfluous disk access, and to remedy this we need smart(er) caching
> > implementation.
> 
> Did you try on recent FreeBSD versions? E.g. stable/9 after r243243, or
> just /boot/loader from head/ ?

Admittedly, I didn't.  My stable/8 laptop and year-or-two -CURRENT on ZFS
both do show slowless with populated loader.conf.  I will study r243243 and
whether it changes anything for me, thanks!

./danfe