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Date:      Tue, 23 Feb 1999 06:30:44 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Panic in FFS/4.0 as of yesterday
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9902230630010.20535-100000@feral-gw>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902230836480.60339-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>

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On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> > > > 
> > > > Check the code paths and look for B_ASYNC getting unset.  I believe this
> > > > is the correct patch.
> > > 
> > > As I said before, the reads and writes in question are not delayed writes.
> > > The reason I have a problem is that the i/o queue in the driver has grown
> > > to an obscene length, increasing latency to unreasonable levels.  Changing
> > > the order of processing delayed writes is irrelavent to this problem.
> > 
> > This isn't a new problem. When I did driver level clustering at Sun back in
> > 1990, I was regularly seeing queue lengths in excess of 1000 for a 16MB
> > memory Sparc2.
> 
> Thats a lot of memory to be using in a 16Mb box.  Was the machine still
> usable with this kind of i/o load?
> 

Not really for interactive performance, no. But it did keep serving files.



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