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Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>,
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Subject: Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds
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on 07/07/2011 06:11 Steve Kargl said the following:
> Unfortunately, I have neither the brain capacity and time nor
> the money to fix the issue.  To solve OP's problem in the 
> short, the simplest solution may be to switch to 4BSD.  Let's
> face, ULE is not a silver bullet.

I think that piling up different problems into a single discussion, even if they
involve a common component (to a certain degree), is not going to help anybody.
If I have read this thread correctly (and taking the subject line as a witness)
the OP had a problem with heavy I/O activity screwing up interactivity.  I think
that it's not the same problem as sub-optimal performance of heavy CPU-bound
load, which is what you reported if I am not mistaken.

-- 
Andriy Gapon