Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 14:37:32 +0400 From: arrowdodger <6yearold@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds Message-ID: <CALH631=F4bSgNDE4w0qcXGMgGxZRRwCP9n-H4M0c%2B1UEaqWr7Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E1421D9.7080808@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <4E1421D9.7080808@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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2011/7/6 O. Hartmann <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> > When performing an update on the ports tree via "portsnap fetch update" or > when checking out (or) large Subversion repositories or when copying large > data files (~ 50 to 250 GB in size, results from numerical modelings) or > when compiling world, FreeBD 9.0 and FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE tend to "freeze" for > several seconds or drop overall performance dramatically for seconds. On > boxes with only console- or terminal access (no GUI) a running 'vi' gets > stuck for seconds while one of the processes producing heavy I/O is running, > or the output of a 'cat' of a large file stops for several seconds. > > Using X11, this phenomenon gets even worse and the 'freezing' tends to > persist sometimes for more than 10 or 15 seconds. > I've also had (and still having) this problem on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE and 8-STABLE with both UFS and ZFS. Though, i've been running FreeBSD not on powerful servers, but on laptops (2-core CPU's, 2 GB of RAM). But still, KDE4 on Linux performs much better during high disk IO.
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