On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Gino Ruopolo wrote:

> Thank you Bill for your clear description.
>
> Now I have to find a way to justify myself with my head office that after 
> spending  100k+ in hw and migrating to "the most advanced OS" we are running 
> about 8 time slower :)
>
> Anyway I have a problem much more serious than rsync process speed. I hope 
> you'll help me solving it out!
>
> Our situation:
>
> /data/a
> /data/b
> /data/zones/ZONEX    (whole root zone)
>
> As you know I have a process running "rsync -ax /data/a/* /data/b" for about 
> 14hrs.
> The problem is that, while that rsync process is running, ZONEX is completely 
> unusable because of the rsync I/O load.
> Even if we're using FSS, Solaris seems unable to give a small amount of I/O 
> resource to ZONEX's activity ...
>
> I know that FSS  doesn't deal with I/O but I think Solaris should be smarter 
> ..

What about using ipqos (man ipqos)?

> To draw a comparison, FreeBSD Jail doesn't suffer from this problem ...
>
> thank,
> Gino

Regards,

Al Hopper  Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX.  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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