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Date:      Sun, 9 Nov 2008 16:02:19 -0500
From:      Dan <dan-freebsd-questions@ourbrains.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sluggish scheduling during a long disk copy
Message-ID:  <20081109210219.GB8576@ourbrains.org>
In-Reply-To: <49174EAC.2070403@FreeBSD.org>
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Kris Kennaway(kris@FreeBSD.org)@2008.11.09 12:57:16 -0800:
>> could be an issue with ntfs-3g driver
>
> Sounds like it to me.  ntfs-3g uses FUSE, which is a userland filesystem  
> framework.  By design it will have poor I/O performance since every I/O  
> transfer will require multiple trips into and out of the kernel.

The FS performance isn't the issue, the poor interactive performance is.



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