Re: RELENG_7 heavy disk = system crawls

2009-08-07 Thread Dieter
> Hi. I'm running RELENG_7 on an older single P4. It has a lot of > disk on it that does mainly sequential read/write of gigs of data. > In short, whenever I'm doing sequential disk stuff, human interface > system performance tanks, big time. > I used to do similar stuff on RELENG_4 on an old dua

RELENG_7 heavy disk = system crawls

2009-08-07 Thread grarpamp
Hi. I'm running RELENG_7 on an older single P4. It has a lot of disk on it that does mainly sequential read/write of gigs of data. The data disks are hanging off a dumb ata133 pdc20269 card, they use geli aes 128 and zfs sha256, single spindles. Free ram, no swap, free disk, no net, etc. In short,