ionice in FreeBSD?

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 09:25:55AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 06:06:22PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 12:07:36PM +0100, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
> > > Great work Luigi ;)
> > > That's amazing... anyway ?is it production-ready?
> > 
> > i would say it is pretty solid. I used it on my main workstation
> > and desktop for a few months last year without a glitch.
> 
> I appreciate your work on this -- truly I do -- but the above statement
> is incredible.  This is not meant as a flame-inducer, but there's really
> no other way to phrase it:
> 
> This IS NOT what "production-ready" means to the rest of us,
> particularly those of us in the server world.  A single developer
> running such code on their workstation for a few months is in no way
> identical to that of a heavily I/O-bound server.

exactly - i said "pretty robust" and not "production ready".
There are known issues with multiple disks arrangements (gvinum etc.)
due to a reuse of a field in a structure.
These are solved in 8.x.

cheers
luigi

> 
> I thought freebsd.org (or maybe ISC?) offered some test/development
> boxes on the 'net available to developers who could test such code +
> perform stress tests over long periods of time?  I'm probably mistaken,
> but I was under that impression.
> 
> -- 
> | Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc at parodius.com |
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