Michael Griffith writes:
> Cacheing before writing sounds like exactly the type of thing that would
> explain the problem. However, I'm on FreeBSD (Sorry, didn't give too many
> details). Anybody know if there is something similar in to bdflush BSD?
>
> I did run iostat to monitor the the activity during the freeze. It appears
> that the writes to the disk about double the usual, but average < 1MB/s.
> 7200 RPM SCSI Barracuda, seems like it should be able to handle more. CPU is
> even 50% idle
>
> Currently I do not have the TMPDIR on a separate physical disk from the
> data. This is looking like the most obvious solution. But I'm still
> confused -- I had no problems at all 48 hours ago. Now suddenly disk
> locking.
>
> Thanks.
>
Hi!
What FreeBSD ?? If any of 4.* kind, there were many important patches
for it, especially since 10th of January.
Ken Menzel has sent a lot of important details on patching of the
latest FreeBSD generations to this list. Please read his mailings.
Regards,
Sinisa
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