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Date:      Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:39:33 +0100
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
To:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Slow on heavy I/O operations.
Message-ID:  <etu0u5$67q$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <1465093066.20070322162026@gmail.com>
References:  <1036039198.20070321153412@gmail.com>	<200703211354.l2LDsKnV080911@lurza.secnetix.de> <1465093066.20070322162026@gmail.com>

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Roman Gorohov. wrote:

> But what I can't understand - why such non-critical(as it seems to me) disk activity,
> cause 100% busyness for disk? Its claim to be 40.000MB/s transfers, but
> sometimes its 100% busy when iostat show only 1 MB/s.

Because disk seeks count. If you have a lot of small transactions that
need seeks they'll kill performance (try running "find /" - you'll get
~500 kB/s rate and 100% busy disks).




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