Christos Zoulas <chris...@astron.com> wrote: > My suggestion is to try: > > sysctl -w vfs.wapbl.flush_disk_cache=0 > > for now...
Excellent: the load does not go over 2 now (compared to 50). Thank you for saving my day. But now what happens? I note the SATA disks are in IDE emulation mode, and not AHCI. This is something I need to try changing: piixide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2: Intel 82801I Serial ATA Controller (ICH9) (rev. 0x02) piixide0: bus-master DMA support present piixide0: primary channel configured to compatibility mode piixide0: primary channel interrupting at ioapic0 pin 14 piixide0: secondary channel configured to compatibility mode piixide0: secondary channel interrupting at ioapic0 pin 15 atabus2 at piixide0 channel 0 wd0 at atabus2 drive 0 atabus3 at piixide0 channel 1 wd2 at atabus3 drive 0 -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz m...@netbsd.org