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Date:      Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:50:22 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Freeing vnodes. 
Message-ID:  <17570.1110963022@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:41:06 %2B1100." <20050316084106.GC28328@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> 

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In message <20050316084106.GC28328@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>, Peter Jeremy wri
tes:
>On Tue, 2005-Mar-15 11:11:32 -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>>    syncer:	  I've always wanted to rewrite the syncer to be per-mount
>>		  or per-physical-device so it could sync out to multiple
>>		  physical devices simultaniously. 
>
>My current bitch with syncer is that it can run for up to around 8msec
>(on an AMD XP-1800).  This screws up interrupt latency.

And throw thousands of I/O requests on the queue at once, which screws
up I/O performance.

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