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Date:      Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:02:20 +0100
From:      Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com>
To:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Slow on heavy I/O operations.
Message-ID:  <200703222102.VAA29654@sopwith.solgatos.com>

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> But what I can't understand - why such non-critical(as it seems to me)
> disk activity, cause 100% busyness for disk?

Others have pointed out the effect of seeking.

It would be very useful if there was a way to nice I/O up or down
the way we can nice CPU usage up or down.  Then non-critical
disk activity could be niced down and not impact critical I/O
so much.



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