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On 12/15/2011 11:42 AM, Attilio Rao wrote:
> 
> I'm thinking now to a better test-case for this: can you try that on a
> tmpfs volume?

There is enough RAM in the box so that it should not touch the disk, and
I was sending the output to /dev/null, so it was not writing to the disk.

> 
> Also what filesystem you were using? 

UFS

> How many CPUs were in place?

4

> Did you reboot before to move the steal_thresh value?

No.

	---Mike
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