From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 5 17:36:34 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6234106566B for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 17:36:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luigi@onelab2.iet.unipi.it) Received: from onelab2.iet.unipi.it (onelab2.iet.unipi.it [131.114.59.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 796EC8FC18 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 17:36:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by onelab2.iet.unipi.it (Postfix, from userid 275) id 610FF73106; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 18:45:18 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 18:45:18 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo To: Jeremy Chadwick Message-ID: <20100205174518.GA25084@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <4B685EBA.4020501@minibofh.org> <4B695A1A.1000505@incunabulum.net> <4B696360.3070209@minibofh.org> <4B6ACC38.2030708@incunabulum.net> <20100204142045.GA86101@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <4B6BFBF8.8050302@minibofh.org> <20100205170622.GA24658@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20100205172555.GA9144@icarus.home.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100205172555.GA9144@icarus.home.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ionice in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:36:34 -0000 On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 09:25:55AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 06:06:22PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 12:07:36PM +0100, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: > > > Great work Luigi ;) > > > That's amazing... anyway ?is it production-ready? > > > > i would say it is pretty solid. I used it on my main workstation > > and desktop for a few months last year without a glitch. > > I appreciate your work on this -- truly I do -- but the above statement > is incredible. This is not meant as a flame-inducer, but there's really > no other way to phrase it: > > This IS NOT what "production-ready" means to the rest of us, > particularly those of us in the server world. A single developer > running such code on their workstation for a few months is in no way > identical to that of a heavily I/O-bound server. exactly - i said "pretty robust" and not "production ready". There are known issues with multiple disks arrangements (gvinum etc.) due to a reuse of a field in a structure. These are solved in 8.x. cheers luigi > > I thought freebsd.org (or maybe ISC?) offered some test/development > boxes on the 'net available to developers who could test such code + > perform stress tests over long periods of time? I'm probably mistaken, > but I was under that impression. > > -- > | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"