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From: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Disk I/O and Peripheral I/O in 6.0-BETA
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rtb> Howdy, I'm using a source build of 6.0-BETA2 (built over 5.4-STABLE)

rtb> Whenever I have huge disk related processes running, `rm -rf src obj
rtb> ports` for example, almost all other forms of I/O suffer.=20

Do you have options WITNESS, INVARIANTS, INVARIANT_SUPPORT
in your kernel?  These are on in 6.0-BETA and can account
for a significant performance loss.

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