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Subject: Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds
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on 06/07/2011 16:33 Alexander Best said the following:
> you might also want to try enabling options IPI_PREEMPTION. no idea, if this
> improves your situation, though.

Just in case, this option has effect for 4BSD scheduler only.

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Andriy Gapon