Odd performance problem (hitching)

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Thursday 08 September 2005 17:19, Don Lewis wrote:
> On  8 Sep, Steven Hartland wrote:
> > There was a vfs patch a while back which fixed an FS based
> > hitching problem for us here but would have thought that
> > would be in current by now.
> > Patch was for usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_bio.c
> > it added a "while (flushed != target) {" loop.
>
> <http://www.chesapeake.net/~jroberson/flushbuf.diff>?
>
> Looks like it was committed to vfs_bio.c 1.487 on June 8th, which was
> before the RELENG_6 branch.

I have 1.493 of vfs_bio.c so..
Doesn't look like that is the candidate :)

It seems to only happen in X, but it does happen to another guy at work with 
totally different hardware so I don't think it is X per se - perhaps just 
that I only open enough files when in X to test it.

I really need to do more testing but ENOTIME :(

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