Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:55:14 -0800 From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> To: freebsd-stable Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: no priority on the console? Message-ID: <B36D9A59-BB41-4F11-B976-8427E07732ED@netconsonance.com>
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As per my previous message, I've spent about 3 months trying to debug a problem that was causing all disk I/O to go very slowly. One of the things which made this nearly impossible to diagnose was the absolute lack of priority given to the console. Logging in on the console would take 12-15 minutes. Hitting enter on the console would usually take between 3 and 5 minutes. This doesn't seem right to me. Can someone explain why the console isn't given a very high priority? Why not? What other mechanism does the sysadmin have for debugging, at a time when SSH logins either fail, or take up to an hour to complete?
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