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Subject: Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds
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On 7 July 2011 09:51, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:17:51AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> Offer a bounty for getting it fixed?
>>
>
> steve == ENOMONEY && jeffr == ENOTIME
>
> And, 4BSD works.

I meant it as a more general observation.

If something doesn't work as needed, consider either diving in to fix
it, or offering a bounty to someone to do so.

It sounds like these scheduler issues (IO and threads) are well-known
and reasonably well-understood.
All that's lacking is the last bit of the puzzle - the actual
developer to develop it. :)


Adrian