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Date:      Mon, 7 Feb 2011 23:08:21 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Scheduler question
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On 07/02/2011, at 21:07, Ivan Voras wrote:
>>> I'm also interested in raw device vs file system access!
>>=20
>> Oops, sorry.. I just tried that now but it doesn't improve things :(
>=20
> Meaning: you still get jitter?

Yes, well I didn't measure the read frequency but it dropped out =
(stopped streaming due to a full FIFO) no less often.

>> I am writing directly to /dev/ad10 but stressing /dev/ad14 (sudo tar =
-cf /dev/null /local0)
>=20
> Can you do only one of those things? I.e. leave all the file systems
> alone and just do something like 'diskinfo -vt /dev/ad14'?

OK, I wrote the data to /dev/null from USB and ran diskutil in a loop =
and it doesn't drop out.

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