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Cc: Miguel <mmiranda@123.com.sv>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4
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Kris,

> Yes, this is my impression of the problem too.  Any time your process
> is waiting on disk I/O it is going to perform terribly (on any OS -
> disks are slow), and the way to fix this is to make sure it does as
> little I/O as possible (by allowing everything to be cached in RAM).

just for my curiosity, do you share my opinion on the fsync issue?

regards,

usleep