identifying and fixing server I/O slowdowns

2004-08-06 Thread Jeff Kramer
Oh great and wise FreeBSD gurus, I've been running FreeBSD boxes for about five years with great results (up to 6 at the moment), but recently one of my machines has started to seriously act up. Every time a heavy disk operation (say, tar'ing a 1 gig directory) occurs the system slows to a

Re: identifying and fixing server I/O slowdowns

2004-08-06 Thread Uwe Doering
Jeff Kramer wrote: Oh great and wise FreeBSD gurus, I've been running FreeBSD boxes for about five years with great results (up to 6 at the moment), but recently one of my machines has started to seriously act up. Every time a heavy disk operation (say, tar'ing a 1 gig directory) occurs the